Stephen Hanks, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Tucson, AZNPI 1689675274
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $914 of the $1,032 with a category attached, or 88.6%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medacta USA, Inc. at 33.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $471 and has fallen 92.7% since, to $35 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in AZ, where the typical reported total is $49,864.
Across 27 payments — averaging $38.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medacta USA, Inc.$340
- Abbott$245
- Nevro Corp.$149
- Boston Scientific$115
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$57
- Precision Spine, Inc.$51
- plus $74 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$11811%
- Food & beverage$91489%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 4 | $340 |
| Abbott | 12 | $245 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $149 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $115 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $57 |
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $39 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, 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.
How this compares
$1,032 in reported general payments places this provider in the 10th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 239 | $2,720 |
| Methylprednisolone | 117 | $823 |
| Gabapentin | 89 | $747 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 62 | $560 |
| Ibuprofen | 34 | $255 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 43 | $132 |
| Meloxicam | 17 | $54 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Tucson
- Steven ZeillerTucson$229K
- Kai-Uwe LewandrowskiTucson$123K
- Adam BevevinoTucson$18K
- Peter duTucson$12K
- Gerard JeongTucson$430
- Robert DziobaTucson$204
- Justin FieldPhoenix$2.3M
- John HallFlagstaff$783K
- Nima SalariPhoenix$741K
- Harvinder BediPhoenix$740K
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.