Stuart Melcer, MD
Surgery · Tucson, AZNPI 1225080377
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $64,000 of the $70,662 with a category attached, or 90.6%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 97.8% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $27,214 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $20 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in AZ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 65 payments — averaging $1087.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$69K
- Davol Inc.$1K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$48
- Johnson & Johnson$34
- Teleflex LLC$21
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$20
- plus $88 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4501%
- Travel & lodging$2,3233%
- Food & beverage$3,5975%
- Education$64,00091%
- Gifts$2920%
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 | 48 | $69,112 |
| Davol Inc. | 7 | $1,339 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $34 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $20 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $17 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $15 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Shire North American Group 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$68,653
- Phasix Mesh$825
- Phasix Plug and Patch$450
How this compares
$70,662 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.
Other surgery in Tucson
- Rifat LatifiTucson$144K
- Katie ArtzTucson$103K
- Jenelle OlsonTucson$72K
- Andrew NejadTucson$57K
- Tiffany SonTucson$47K
- Patrick ChiassonTucson$46K
- Michael ProbstfeldTucson$46K
- Guillermo Higa SansoneTucson$42K
- Kelly LaraTucson$36K
- Sarah Lee-DavissonTucson$33K
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.