Anastassios Karistinos
Sports Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1457499071
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 145 payments — averaging $70.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$5K
- Catalyst Orthoscience$2K
- Medinc Of Texas$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$436
- Vericel Corporation$357
- Zimmer Biomet$241
- plus $813 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,50015%
- Travel & lodging$831%
- Food & beverage$7,38873%
- Education$1,20012%
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 | 95 | $5,447 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 2 | $1,630 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 2 | $1,247 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $436 |
| Vericel Corporation | 8 | $357 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 10 | $241 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $169 |
| Next Science LLC | 2 | $144 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Bioventus LLC | 5 | $103 |
| Axogen | 4 | $87 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 2 | $67 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $32 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $27 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Vision Quest Industries Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Catalyst Total CSR$1,630
- MACI$241
- BioBrace 23mm$169
- OMEGA$156
- HIPCHECK$135
- FIBERGRAFT BG Morsels$130
- NA$125
- OVOMotion$119
How this compares
$10,171 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 437 sports medicine providers in Texas.
Other sports medicine in Houston
- Walter LoweHouston$1.4M
- David BrownHouston$920K
- James GregoryHouston$848K
- Matthew HiggsHouston$634K
- Robert FullickHouston$141K
- Patrick McCullochHouston$136K
- Joshua HarrisHouston$109K
- David LintnerHouston$45K
- Mark AdickesHouston$35K
- Mufaddal GomberaHouston$33K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.