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THOMAS DISTEFANO

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Orthopaedic Surgery

NPI
1598768830
CMS profile
117971
Location
YUMA, AZ

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General Payments · PY2022 · Entire year

$3,975.83

23 records · 0 disputed

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By nature of payment

PY2022 · entire year · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Education $2,400.00 2
Travel and Lodging $1,195.52 5
Food and Beverage $380.31 16

By paying entity

PY2022 · entire year · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Arthrex, Inc. $3,220.36 15
Peerless Surgical Inc. $682.13 5
SANOFI-AVENTIS U.S. LLC $46.96 1
Avanos Medical $26.38 2

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THOMAS DISTEFANO

NPI 1598768830 · CMS profile ID 117971

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians / Orthopaedic Surgery

YUMA, AZ

A name match is not confirmation of identity. CMS publishes records for different people under similar names; the NPI, specialty, and location shown on this page are the CMS-published fields that distinguish them.

A payment attributed to a provider may have been made to a third party — a hospital, practice, or research institution — rather than paid to the provider personally.

General Payments, PY2022; Recipient scope: Physicians and non-physician practitioners; Reporting company: All reporting companies; Nature of payment: All payment types

Data edition: cms-20260630-workflow-20261105-v2; CMS publication: 2026-06-30; records imported: 2026-11-05T09:06:52.159882+00:00

Page 1 of 1; records 1–23 of 23 matching records. This page contains 23 records (maximum 50), not the full filtered export.

Filtered page: https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1598768830?year=2022&recipient=provider#records-h

CMS source: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/dataset/df01c2f8-dc1f-4e79-96cb-8208beaf143c

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THOMAS DISTEFANO, NPI 1598768830, CMS profile ID 117971. General Payments, PY2022; Recipient scope: Physicians and non-physician practitioners; Reporting company: All reporting companies; Nature of payment: All payment types. Data edition: cms-20260630-workflow-20261105-v2; CMS publication: 2026-06-30; records imported: 2026-11-05T09:06:52.159882+00:00. Page 1 of 1; records 1–23 of 23 matching records. This page contains 23 records (maximum 50), not the full filtered export. IndustryPayments. https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1598768830?year=2022&recipient=provider#records-h. Source: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/dataset/df01c2f8-dc1f-4e79-96cb-8208beaf143c.
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IndustryPayments. (2026). THOMAS DISTEFANO, NPI 1598768830, CMS profile ID 117971. General Payments, PY2022; Recipient scope: Physicians and non-physician practitioners; Reporting company: All reporting companies; Nature of payment: All payment types. Data edition: cms-20260630-workflow-20261105-v2; CMS publication: 2026-06-30; records imported: 2026-11-05T09:06:52.159882+00:00. Page 1 of 1; records 1–23 of 23 matching records. This page contains 23 records (maximum 50), not the full filtered export. [Filtered data set page]. https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1598768830?year=2022&recipient=provider#records-h. Source: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/dataset/df01c2f8-dc1f-4e79-96cb-8208beaf143c.
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THOMAS DISTEFANO, NPI 1598768830, CMS profile ID 117971, IndustryPayments, General Payments, PY2022; Recipient scope: Physicians and non-physician practitioners; Reporting company: All reporting companies; Nature of payment: All payment types (Data edition: cms-20260630-workflow-20261105-v2; CMS publication: 2026-06-30; records imported: 2026-11-05T09:06:52.159882+00:00). Page 1 of 1; records 1–23 of 23 matching records. This page contains 23 records (maximum 50), not the full filtered export. Source: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/dataset/df01c2f8-dc1f-4e79-96cb-8208beaf143c. https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1598768830?year=2022&recipient=provider#records-h.

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Payment records · PY2022

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General Payments · PY2022 · Physicians and non-physician practitioners · CMS publication 2026-06-30

23 matching records · $3,975.83 reported total · 0 disputed

Nature of payment: All payment types

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Showing records 1–23 of 23.

Paying entityAmountDate Nature of paymentDispute statusPublication flagsPublished Record IDSource
Avanos Medical $11.9010/06/2022 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 946594599 CMS
SANOFI-AVENTIS U.S. LLC $46.9609/13/2022 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 938954163 CMS
Avanos Medical $14.4805/25/2022 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 946594597 CMS
Arthrex, Inc. $24.0002/05/2022 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 901572709 CMS
Arthrex, Inc. $10.0002/05/2022 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 901572711 CMS
Arthrex, Inc. $10.0002/05/2022 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 901572713 CMS
Arthrex, Inc. $10.0002/05/2022 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 901572715 CMS
Arthrex, Inc. $10.0002/05/2022 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 901572717 CMS
Arthrex, Inc. $1,200.0002/05/2022 Education No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 901572719 CMS
Peerless Surgical Inc. $36.0002/05/2022 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 875378845 CMS
Peerless Surgical Inc. $48.9702/05/2022 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 875378847 CMS
Arthrex, Inc. $45.0002/04/2022 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 901572693 CMS
Arthrex, Inc. $10.0002/04/2022 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 901572695 CMS
Arthrex, Inc. $10.0002/04/2022 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 901572697 CMS
Arthrex, Inc. $10.0002/04/2022 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 901572699 CMS
Arthrex, Inc. $10.0002/04/2022 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 901572701 CMS
Arthrex, Inc. $24.0002/04/2022 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 901572703 CMS
Arthrex, Inc. $323.6802/04/2022 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 901572705 CMS
Arthrex, Inc. $1,200.0002/04/2022 Education No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 901572707 CMS
Peerless Surgical Inc. $136.8602/04/2022 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 875378839 CMS
Peerless Surgical Inc. $85.0002/04/2022 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 875378841 CMS
Peerless Surgical Inc. $375.3002/04/2022 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 875378843 CMS
Arthrex, Inc. $323.6802/03/2022 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 901572691 CMS

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2019 $13,242.30 66
PY2020 $8,127.24 44
PY2021 $6,397.38 40
PY2022 $3,975.83 23
PY2023 $245.80 7
PY2024 $73.74 3
PY2025 $433.53 3

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-06-30
Program years on this page
2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Source files and profile matching
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OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2025_P06302026_06032026.csv

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