RxDoctor Payments Data

Adam Park

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Houston, TXNPI 1538691985

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,782 of the $5,770 with a category attached, or 82.9%. Stryker accounts for 66.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $12,726.

$5,770in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 137 payments — averaging $42.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Stryker$4K
  • Medtronic$610
  • Si-bone, Inc.$419
  • Alphatec Spine, Inc$418
  • Johnson & Johnson$225
  • VB Spine LLC$154
  • plus $139 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$98817%
  • Food & beverage$4,78283%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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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.

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.

How this compares

$5,770 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 207 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$87,404
Medicare patients
163
Services billed
429

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Gabapentin31$272
Meloxicam16$101
Methocarbamol15$88
Methylprednisolone13$77
Tramadol Hcl14$42

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Houston

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