Alfonso Fuentes Pinillos
Neurological Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1215171897
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 61 payments — averaging $66.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$1K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$593
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$476
- Globus Medical$388
- Medtronic$159
- Ulrich Medical USA, Inc.$131
- plus $909 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,40735%
- Food & beverage$2,57163%
- Entertainment$932%
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 | 17 | $1,415 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 5 | $593 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 4 | $476 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 7 | $388 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $159 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 2 | $131 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 2 | $109 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $71 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 2 | $71 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $63 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $59 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $50 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Zavation Medical Products, LLC | 2 | $47 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| International Rehabilitative Sciences, Inc | 1 | $36 |
| VB Spine LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $28 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $25 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $18 |
| Wenzel Spine, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $16 |
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.
- MAKO$767
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$130
- BASE$117
- Bendini$117
- COHERE$117
- POWER$117
- Excelsius - GPS$105
- Rampart Duo Interbody Fusion System$102
How this compares
$4,072 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 582 neurological surgery providers in Texas.
Other neurological surgery in Houston
- Daniel CurryHouston$3M
- Homero AnchondoHouston$799K
- Claudio TatsuiHouston$777K
- Arthur DayHouston$746K
- Andrew RoeserHouston$660K
- Peng ChenHouston$550K
- Daniel YoshorHouston$519K
- Paul HolmanHouston$516K
- Nitin TandonHouston$510K
- Nelson MossHouston$501K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.