Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Joel Tupper

Orthopaedic Surgery Oklahoma City, OK Medical Doctor

NPI 1427083609 CMS profile 403460

12301 N Western Ave Ste 101, Oklahoma City, OK 73114

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General payments

$4,680

121 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Joel Tupper of Oklahoma City, OK is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $4,680 across 121 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 55th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $582 15
2024 General $720 27
2023 General $947 43
2022 General $1,833 26
2021 General $219 4
2020 General $29 2
2019 General $350 4

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Joel Tupper
  • Orthopaedic Surgery median
  • Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Joel Tupper were reported at $582. Among 15,343 Orthopaedic Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $563 and the middle half received between $147 and $2,717.

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Year Joel Tupper Orthopaedic Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $350 $644 $140–$2,844 $163
2020 $29 $312 $75–$1,860 $114
2021 $219 $520 $117–$2,495 $132
2022 $1,833 $598 $128–$2,731 $149
2023 $947 $461 $128–$2,264 $160
2024 $720 $497 $134–$2,475 $164
2025 $582 $563 $147–$2,717 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Pylant Medical $1,318 6 payments
  2. Stryker Corporation $315 7 payments
  3. Corium, Inc. $239 14 payments
  4. OMNIlife science, Inc $222 2 payments
  5. Lundbeck LLC $203 11 payments
  6. Trice Medical, Inc. $200 1 payment
  7. Medacta USA, Inc. $198 3 payments
  8. Smith+Nephew, Inc. $178 2 payments
  9. Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $150 1 payment
  10. Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. $146 6 payments
  11. Other $1,509 68 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $3,280 119 payments
  2. Education $1,200 1 payment
  3. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $200 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Azstarys $239 14 payments
  2. REXULTI Psychiatry $203 11 payments
  3. Segway blade or mieye camera $200 1 payment
  4. GMK Sphere $172 2 payments
  5. GPS III PLATELET CONCENTRATION SYSTEM $150 1 payment
  6. Various Products $148 1 payment
  7. Auvelity $146 6 payments
  8. REXULTI Psychiatry $139 9 payments
  9. SPRAVATO $136 8 payments
  10. MISTRAL-AIR $132 2 payments
  11. Other $1,961 72 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 9 drugs

Part D claims

1,297

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$254,358

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

91.8%

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 11.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Arexvy Rsvpref3 Antigen/As01e/Pf Brand 417 $124,413
Shingrix Varicella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf Brand 494 $106,177
Abrysvo Rsv Vacc, Pref A And Pref B/Pf Brand 42 $12,746
Boostrix Tdap Diphth,pertuss(Acell),tet Vac Brand 113 $7,476
Adacel Tdap Diph,pertuss(Acell),tet Vac/Pf Brand 21 $1,387
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 92 $1,014
Ibuprofen Generic 95 $1,003
Cephalexin Generic 11 $103
Sulfamethoxazole-Trimethoprim Sulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim Brand 12 $40

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 18,934 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 95 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$113,158

Of which drugs: $2,218

Medicare patients

261

Average age 73

Services billed

1,760

148 women, 113 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 69%
Diabetes 34%
Ischemic heart disease 31%
Depression 23%
Chronic kidney disease 20%
Heart failure 18%
Atrial fibrillation 17%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 Office 54 322 $234

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 10 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
REXULTI
  • Lundbeck LLC $132
$132 — —
Auvelity
  • Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. $95
$95 — —
Azstarys
  • Corium, Inc. $34
$34 — —
TRINTELLIX
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $28
$28 — —
RELISTOR
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $24
$24 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

121 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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