Sherwood Duhon
Orthopaedic Surgery · Scottsdale, AZNPI 1740265776
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $225,849 of the $229,102 with a category attached, or 98.6%. Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC accounts for 98.6% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $55,772 and has fallen 61.4% since, to $21,527 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in AZ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 140 payments — averaging $1636.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC$226K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Amgen$262
- Fidia Pharma USA Inc.$186
- Stryker$143
- Johnson & Johnson$143
- plus $624 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$225,84999%
- Consulting fees$8000%
- Food & beverage$2,4541%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC | 6 | $225,849 |
| Smith+Nephew | 42 | $1,896 |
| Amgen | 33 | $262 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 17 | $186 |
| Stryker | 1 | $143 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $143 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $137 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 17 | $117 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 2 | $82 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $50 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Orthogenrx Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- iNSitu Hip System$225,849
- Journey II$2,400
- Legion$800
- Anthem$800
- T-Fix$170
- Journey II BCS$170
- PICO 7 Single Use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy$170
- REDAPT Revision Hip System$170
- MAKO$143
- UNID_PASS$137
How this compares
$229,102 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 377 orthopaedic surgery providers in Arizona.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Scottsdale
- Paul GauseScottsdale$614K
- Bertrand KaperScottsdale$482K
- David CamarataScottsdale$406K
- David BailieScottsdale$249K
- Shane MartinScottsdale$244K
- John BradwayScottsdale$219K
- Krishna MallikScottsdale$79K
- Timothy KavanaughScottsdale$71K
- Laura ProkuskiScottsdale$58K
- Paul GoodwynScottsdale$56K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.