Andre Samuel, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Webster, TXNPI 1184087108
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 147 payments — averaging $302.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$22K
- Retropsoas Technologies, LLC$10K
- Globus Medical$5K
- Cerapedics Inc.$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$839
- plus $4K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$15,00034%
- Travel & lodging$21,77449%
- Food & beverage$7,67417%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 40 | $21,509 |
| Retropsoas Technologies, LLC | 14 | $9,922 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 22 | $4,940 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 12 | $2,016 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $1,145 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 10 | $839 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 8 | $797 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 3 | $793 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 10 | $675 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $404 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 2 | $313 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 2 | $303 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 4 | $261 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $163 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $127 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $78 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| BD | 1 | $42 |
| Amgen | 2 | $34 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Other - Miscellaneous$19,140
- Solus ALIF$7,000
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$1,917
- ELSA$1,900
- XLIF$1,440
- TLIF$1,285
- Teligen$911
- MYSPINE$632
- CD HORIZON$312
- Battalion PLIF - PS$307
- CellerateRx$214
- ENNOVATE$172
- Excelsius3D Imaging System$169
- Intracept$163
- ACTIVL$140
- O-ARM-Spine$128
- Allograft VMIS Delivery System$127
- FIBERGRAFT BG Morsels$126
- VIPER$125
- SafeOp$104
How this compares
$44,448 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 232 | $2,611 |
| Methocarbamol | 186 | $1,860 |
| Methylprednisolone | 213 | $1,682 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 101 | $1,237 |
| Cephalexin | 18 | $1,047 |
| Meloxicam | 256 | $874 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 97 | $721 |
| Gabapentin | 66 | $558 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 86 | $362 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 25 | $299 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 19 | $214 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 29 | $197 |
| Pregabalin | 16 | $123 |
| Diazepam | 20 | $51 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Webster
- Randall DryerAustin$2.9M
- Craig KuhnsAustin$2.7M
- David WimberleyHouston$2.2M
- Jeffrey PhelpsNorth Richland Hills$1.9M
- Eric WieserArlington$1.5M
- Richard GuyerPlano$1.3M
- Andrew ClavennaDallas$1.3M
- Ivan ChengKyle$1.2M
- Stephen TolhurstFlower Mound$1.1M
- Michael ObrienPlano$1M
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.