Has Andrew Ebert, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $82,378 in general payments to Andrew Ebert, MD across 195 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Andrew Ebert, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Andrew Ebert, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Andrew Ebert, MD

Foot and Ankle Surgery · Austin, TXNPI 1952344657

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $52,875 of the $82,378 with a category attached, or 64.2%. Medline Industries LP accounts for 76.3% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $27,826, 4.8 times the $5,854 reported in 2019. Among foot and ankle surgery clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$82,378in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 195 payments — averaging $422.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medline Industries LP$63K
Stryker$10K
International Life Sciences$4K
Arthrex$2K
Medinc Of Texas$2K
Smith+Nephew$402
plus $891 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$52,87564%
Travel & lodging$17,11321%
Food & beverage$8,98511%
Education$3,3504%
Gifts$560%

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
Medline Industries LP	50	$62,848
Stryker(2 entities)	108	$9,883
International Life Sciences	1	$4,000
Arthrex	9	$2,395
Medinc Of Texas	3	$1,959
Smith+Nephew	8	$402
Paragon 28, Inc.	2	$258
Linvatec Corporation	1	$140
Carbofix Orthopedics Inc	2	$135
Abbott	3	$129
Theramicro, Inc.	1	$91
Zimmer Biomet	1	$41
Bioventus LLC	2	$33
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	2	$27
Curonix LLC	1	$21
Heron Therapeutics, 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.

How this compares

$82,378 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 684 foot and ankle surgery providers in Texas.

See all foot and ankle surgery providers in Texas →

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$247,910

Medicare patients

668

Services billed

11,028

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	83	$1,229
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	18	$419
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	50	$415
CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil	33	$399
Meloxicam	108	$250
Gabapentin	28	$232
Methylprednisolone	11	$95
Tramadol Hcl	27	$58

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other foot and ankle surgery in Austin

Mark DaltonAustin$1.9M
Pedro CosculluelaAustin$69K
William McGarveyKaty$3.5M
Eugene CurryDallas$3.1M
Graham HamiltonEdinburg$2.1M
Kevin VarnerHouston$1.1M
Paul KimDallas$928K
Sherman NaglerHouston$602K
John EarlyDallas$553K
Michael DowneySouthlake$475K

See the full list for Texas →

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.

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →