Timothy Putty, MD
Neurological Surgery · Tucson, AZNPI 1679568869
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $24,802 of the $38,774 with a category attached, or 64.0%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Spinal Elements, Inc. at 58.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $13,925 and has fallen 93.3% since, to $927 in 2025.
Across 83 payments — averaging $467.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$22K
- Innovasis Inc$11K
- Choice Spine, LLC$4K
- Merz North America, Inc.$360
- Abbott$254
- Spineology Inc.$185
- plus $771 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$24,80264%
- Travel & lodging$10,71928%
- Food & beverage$3,2538%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 21 | $22,499 |
| Innovasis Inc | 10 | $10,573 |
| Choice Spine, LLC | 7 | $4,132 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 8 | $360 |
| Abbott | 5 | $254 |
| Spineology Inc. | 4 | $185 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $132 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $91 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 2 | $85 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $82 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $78 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $63 |
| Stryker | 2 | $59 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $39 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 1 | $35 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 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.
- KARMA$5,882
- CLUTCH$5,500
- Medical Device$3,706
- KATANA$3,500
- Cadaver Lab, systems$3,000
- Tiger Shark System$2,475
- Blackhawk Cervical Spacer System$1,186
- Stratofuse$1,186
- Boomerang$691
- TIGERSHARK C$525
- Harrier SA Lumbar Interbody System$525
- Thunderbolt Minimally Invasive Pedicle Screw Systems$495
- VEO Lateral Interbody Fusion System$495
- Triton$495
- TigerShark M$450
- Luna/Orbit$250
- MIS TLIF Retractor$250
- Tiger Shark C$166
- Raven Lumbar Plate System$166
- Dimension Retractor$125
How this compares
$38,774 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 173 neurological 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 28 | $885 |
| Gabapentin | 79 | $816 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 89 | $446 |
| Methylprednisolone | 52 | $337 |
| Pregabalin | 20 | $285 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 18 | $189 |
| Methocarbamol | 20 | $181 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 39 | $165 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 20 | $131 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 14 | $112 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 20 | $80 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Tucson
- Richard ChuaTucson$1.3M
- Li-Mei LinTucson$653K
- Ryan KretzerTucson$402K
- Julie PilitsisTucson$165K
- Paul LarsonTucson$96K
- Ibrahim AlhalalTucson$53K
- Ryan AustermanTucson$37K
- Kirsty HamiltonTucson$37K
- Arunit ChughTucson$14K
- Robert SpetzlerPhoenix$12.8M
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.