Russell Cohen, MD
Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Tucson, AZNPI 1700887460
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $808,075 of the $969,733 with a category attached, or 83.3%. Stryker accounts for 100.0% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $315,161 and has fallen 81.1% since, to $59,482 in 2025. Among adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery clinicians in AZ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 667 payments — averaging $1453.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$970K
- Nevro Corp.$29
- Pfizer$29
- Smith+Nephew$28
- Boston Scientific$15
Across 18 payments — averaging $1709.94 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Stryker$31K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$808,07583%
- Travel & lodging$146,94115%
- Food & beverage$14,7182%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 663 | $969,632 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $29 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $29 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $28 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $15 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$969,733 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 43 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Arizona.
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Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 37 | $785 |
| Meloxicam | 290 | $747 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $54 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Tucson
- Michael MillerTucson$2.3M
- Abigail HamiltonTucson$150K
- John MaltryTucson$58K
- Gens GoodmanTucson$7K
- Edward PetrowTucson$3K
- Steven MyerthallGilbert$691K
- Salvatore LacognataGilbert$445K
- Lige KaplanPhoenix$327K
- Paul SousaBuckeye$70K
- John ThompsonSun City$64K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.