Akshay Yadhati, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Austin, TXNPI 1902240898
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 101 payments — averaging $167.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$8K
- Globus Medical$7K
- Arthrex$834
- Medtronic$234
- Core Surgical Group$159
- Kairos Surgical Inc$59
- plus $234 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,29937%
- Food & beverage$4,68328%
- Education$5,92335%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 51 | $8,247 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 26 | $7,138 |
| Arthrex | 9 | $834 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $234 |
| Core Surgical Group | 3 | $159 |
| Kairos Surgical Inc | 1 | $59 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $50 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $46 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $38 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Amgen | 1 | $18 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $15 |
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.
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$5,923
- Sable$2,297
- Excelsius - GPS$2,178
- Excelsius Robotics System$1,460
- RISE$658
- SPINE INSTRUMENTS ENDOSCOPIC INSTRUMENT SETS$357
- CASCADIA$334
- PYRENEES$232
- CERVICAL PLATE$208
- N/A$141
- COALITION AGX$139
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$130
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$128
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$111
- YUKON$102
- ELSA ATP$100
How this compares
$16,905 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 207 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Texas.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 499 | $4,777 |
| Pregabalin | 147 | $1,551 |
| Meloxicam | 188 | $931 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 107 | $596 |
| Ibuprofen | 29 | $282 |
| Methylprednisolone | 25 | $168 |
| Tranexamic Acid | 30 | $139 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 19 | $94 |
| Methocarbamol | 11 | $80 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 11 | $55 |
| Omeprazole | 28 | $39 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Austin
- Randall DryerAustin$2.9M
- Craig KuhnsAustin$2.7M
- Richard WuppermanAustin$808K
- Eeric TruumeesAustin$375K
- Matthew GeckAustin$100K
- David WimberleyHouston$2.2M
- Jeffrey PhelpsNorth Richland Hills$1.9M
- Eric WieserArlington$1.5M
- Richard GuyerPlano$1.3M
- Andrew ClavennaDallas$1.3M
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.