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Alan Rechter, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1497732739

Payments from drug & device makers

$605,401in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 853 payments — averaging $709.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$557K
  • Vertex$21K
  • Stryker$14K
  • Davol Inc.$5K
  • Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$2K
  • Amgen$2K
  • plus $5K from 28 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$122,69520%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$392,22465%
  • Travel & lodging$64,76811%
  • Food & beverage$24,5154%
  • Education$1,2000%

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

$605,401 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$257,982
Medicare patients
504
Services billed
24,993

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
ProliaDenosumab16$27,344
Meloxicam1,716$4,473
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen264$2,737
Celecoxib163$1,795
Cephalexin66$556
Ibandronate Sodium11$322
Ibuprofen16$215
Nabumetone18$208
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine33$203
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl36$167
Tramadol Hcl56$150
Gabapentin12$81

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
AmgenProlia$1,660$27,34416 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.

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