Tharesh Udupa, DPM
Foot Surgery · Sun City, AZNPI 1275537607
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (47.3%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 31 manufacturers reported payments, led by New Horizon Medical Solutions at 46.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $46,478, more than ten times the $806 reported in 2019.
Across 223 payments — averaging $430.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- New Horizon Medical Solutions$45K
- AbbVie$45K
- Nevro Corp.$2K
- Stryker$1K
- Solventum Corporation$251
- Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$239
- plus $2K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$45,35047%
- Speaking & faculty fees$39,19141%
- Travel & lodging$4,2384%
- Food & beverage$7,0347%
- Education$890%
- Entertainment$730%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| New Horizon Medical Solutions | 3 | $45,000 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 129 | $44,723 |
| Nevro Corp. | 13 | $2,032 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 23 | $1,429 |
| Solventum Corporation | 4 | $251 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $239 |
| Flower Orthopedics Coporation | 1 | $200 |
| Bioventus LLC | 11 | $184 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $173 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 3 | $169 |
| Surgenex LLC | 4 | $155 |
| Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC | 2 | $143 |
| Hartmann USA, Inc. | 3 | $141 |
| Goode Surgical Inc | 1 | $121 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $120 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| X-spine Systems, Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Trilliant Surgical LLC. | 1 | $97 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $87 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $82 |
| Argentum Medical | 1 | $73 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Biowound Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $48 |
| Medline Industries LP | 2 | $43 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $34 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $27 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Hydrofera LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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
Too few foot surgery providers in Arizonato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 23 | $395 |
| Methylprednisolone | 42 | $358 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 27 | $91 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot surgery in Sun City
- Daniel SchulmanYuma$28K
- Timothy ShortTucson$3K
- Barry KaplanPhoenix$788
- Leobardo CarranzaGlendale$778
- Nitin NandaGlendale$599
- Kenneth BlocherTucson$285
- David JenkinsGlendale$84
- Jeffrey PageGlendale$22
- Adam LuSacaton$12
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.