Orthopedic Surgery in Arizona
12 providers, $2,699,227 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays orthopedic surgery clinicians in Arizona
Across 12 orthopedic surgery clinicians in Arizona who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,578,328 in total — an average of $131,527 each, of which $119,064 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Christopher YeungPhoenix$2,670,087
- 2Sherif DabashTucson$11,492
- 3Michael LeePhoenix$5,535
- 4Gregory PeareYuma$4,279
- 5Christopher HamiltonScottsdale$4,201
- 6Michael WengPhoenix$2,158
- 7Randall HardisonChandler$1,296
- 8Andre MatthewsMesa$180
- 9Sepein ChiangPhoenix$0
- 10Leonard BodellPhoenix$0
- 11Janet WhirlowScottsdale$0
- 12Jody DaggettGlobe$0