Sarah Ducharme, MD
Surgery · Tucson, AZNPI 1609853951
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 165 payments — averaging $906.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merakris Therapeutics, Inc.$142K
- Smith+Nephew$3K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$3K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$246
- Amgen$231
- Misonix Inc$208
- plus $2K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,00028%
- Travel & lodging$1,79217%
- Food & beverage$5,84755%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merakris Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $141,908 |
| Smith+Nephew | 50 | $2,700 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 14 | $2,683 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 6 | $246 |
| Amgen | 16 | $231 |
| Misonix Inc | 15 | $208 |
| AbbVie | 8 | $201 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 5 | $175 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $174 |
| Acacia Pharma Inc | 4 | $163 |
| Solventum Corporation | 3 | $114 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 6 | $110 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $94 |
| Bayer | 5 | $81 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Merck | 3 | $48 |
| Biowound Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 3 | $43 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $21 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $11 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 1 | $8 |
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
$149,546 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 614 surgery providers in Arizona.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 17 | $124 |
| Omeprazole | 13 | $11 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Katie ArtzTucson$103K
- Jenelle OlsonTucson$72K
- Stuart MelcerTucson$71K
- Patrick ChiassonTucson$71K
- Andrew NejadTucson$57K
- Tiffany SonTucson$47K
- Michael ProbstfeldTucson$46K
- Guillermo Higa SansoneTucson$42K
- Kelly LaraTucson$36K
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.