Alexander Wetzig, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1932763448
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 111 payments — averaging $88.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$4K
- Arthrex$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$899
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$883
- Medinc Of Texas$425
- Medshape, Inc.$400
- plus $1K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,04431%
- Food & beverage$6,77469%
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
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 | 54 | $4,225 |
| Arthrex | 11 | $1,944 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 14 | $899 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $883 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 7 | $425 |
| Medshape, Inc. | 3 | $400 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 2 | $246 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 2 | $191 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $161 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $116 |
| Pylant Medical | 3 | $59 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
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.
- MOTOBAND$899
- INFINITY$620
- INBONE$511
- MAKO$475
- ALLOGRAFT TISSUE$316
- DynaNail$286
- TRIATHLON$175
- PANGEA$175
- T2 ALPHA$175
- GAMMA$175
- PROPHECY$175
- CITREFIX$165
- Irrisept$161
- BioBrace 23mm$158
- COLINK PLATING SYSTEM$158
- VersaWrap$150
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$149
- VA-LCP$148
- INCOMPASS TOTAL ANKLE SYSTEM$132
- GRAVITY SYNCHFIX$131
How this compares
$9,818 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.
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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Houston
- Stefan KreuzerHouston$7M
- Tiffany HuynhHouston$4.6M
- Stephen IncavoHouston$4.3M
- Thomas EdwardsHouston$4.3M
- Adam FreedhandHouston$1.8M
- Jeffrey KozakHouston$1.1M
- Travis HansonHouston$1M
- David VanderweideHouston$741K
- Thomas TanousHouston$698K
- Alan RechterHouston$605K
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.