Has Stephanie Worrell, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $76,931 in general payments to Stephanie Worrell, MD across 362 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Stephanie Worrell, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Stephanie Worrell, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Stephanie Worrell, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Tucson, AZNPI 1851685523

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — education (24.9%), food and beverage and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 73.2% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest.

$76,931in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 362 payments — averaging $212.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$56K
Medtronic$6K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$2K
Johnson & Johnson$2K
Atricure, Inc.$2K
plus $6K from 19 others

$48,994in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $48,994 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.

AstraZeneca$49K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$3,3204%
Speaking & faculty fees$16,50021%
Grants$2,7184%
Travel & lodging$16,33521%
Food & beverage$18,82524%
Education$19,15125%
Gifts$820%

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
Intuitive Surgical	162	$56,346
Medtronic	33	$5,775
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	17	$2,866
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	4	$2,444
Johnson & Johnson(4 entities)	65	$2,071
Atricure, Inc.	18	$1,901
Genentech USA, Inc.	1	$1,420
Davol Inc.	14	$1,018
Baxter Healthcare	7	$657
AstraZeneca	5	$413
Boston Scientific	6	$387
BD	4	$335
Merit Medical Systems Inc	2	$220
Edwards Lifesciences	2	$210
Bard Access Systems, Inc.	1	$181
Kls-martin L.p.	7	$155
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	4	$154
Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc	1	$122
On Target Laboratories, Inc	1	$78
Zimmer Biomet	2	$56
Dilon Technologies, Inc.	2	$48
Abbott	1	$23
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$21
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.	1	$19
Sobi, Inc	1	$13

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.

Da Vinci Surgical System$48,878
ION$3,000
ECHELON FLEX Stapler$1,858
HARMONIC Product Family$1,733
Surgicel Powder$1,733
Alecensa$1,420
Signia$1,145
DAVINCI XI$1,000
LINX Reflux Management System$935
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$892
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$653
PROGEL$430
Progel Applicator Spray Tips$352
ZIPFIX$273
MATRIXRIB$273
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$250
COSEAL$227
Penditure$179
Signet$154
ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$142

How this compares

$76,931 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 100 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$115,121

Medicare patients

150

Services billed

392

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.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Tucson

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Toshinobu KazuiTucson$20K
Elizabeth ButlerTucson$16K
George MakdisiTucson$10K
William CooperTucson$8K
Jonathan RiceTucson$7K
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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.

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