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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.

$229,102in general payments, 2019–2025

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

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC6$225,849
Smith+Nephew42$1,896
Amgen33$262
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.17$186
Stryker1$143
Johnson & Johnson6$143
Medtronic1$137
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.17$117
Dynasplint Systems Inc.2$82
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.3$66
Bioventus LLC3$50
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC2$39
Orthogenrx Inc.2$33
Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.1$31
Convatec Inc.1$26
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.1$16
Vericel Corporation1$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.

How this compares

$229,102 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 377 orthopaedic surgery providers in Arizona.

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