Thomas Higgins, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1376598615
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,048,703 of the $1,212,823 with a category attached, or 86.5%. Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. accounts for 86.5% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $377,156, 6.0 times the $63,049 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in UT 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 160 payments — averaging $7580.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$1M
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$96K
- Globus Medical$27K
- Synthes GmbH$23K
- Synthes USA Products LLC$13K
- Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.$5K
- plus $639 from 3 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $50,291 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.$352K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,048,70386%
- Consulting fees$126,82010%
- Speaking & faculty fees$14,5001%
- Travel & lodging$20,4672%
- Food & beverage$2,3330%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 31 | $1,048,703 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 61 | $95,736 |
| Globus Medical | 14 | $27,495 |
| Synthes GmbH | 24 | $22,834 |
| Synthes USA Products LLC | 16 | $12,646 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 8 | $4,770 |
| Stryker | 4 | $485 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 1 | $142 |
| Resmed Corp | 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.
- NA$1,063,177
- EXPert Nail$91,445
- LCP$86,235
- IM NAILS$64,686
- TFN-Advance$16,173
- Proximal Humerus Plate$11,500
- Syndesmosis Fixation$10,875
- DHS$5,150
- TFN ADVANCED$5,150
- EX NAILS$5,147
- LCP PLATES & SCREWS$5,147
- RIA$5,147
- Clavical Fixation (16-186)$4,960
- Unifi Technology$4,240
- TRUMATCH$870
- VARIAX$290
- AXSOS$154
- VA-LCP$142
- CAPTIVATE$122
How this compares
$1,212,823 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 221 orthopaedic surgery providers in Utah.
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 orthopaedic surgery in Salt Lake City
- Aaron HofmannSalt Lake City$10.7M
- Jeremy GilillandSalt Lake City$2.9M
- Robert TashjianSalt Lake City$2.6M
- Jeffrey JacksonSalt Lake City$2.3M
- Christopher MartinSalt Lake City$1.2M
- Christopher PeltSalt Lake City$432K
- Robert BurksSalt Lake City$355K
- Charles SaltzmanSalt Lake City$254K
- Stephen AokiSalt Lake City$239K
- Brandon LawrenceSalt Lake City$144K
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.