Andrew Freese, MD
Sports Medicine · Southlake, TXNPI 1942564778
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 116 payments — averaging $157.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pylant Medical$6K
- Smith+Nephew$5K
- Arthrex$2K
- Arcuro Medical Inc$2K
- Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$2K
- Stryker$398
- plus $1K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,00011%
- Travel & lodging$5,66331%
- Food & beverage$5,59131%
- Education$4,98527%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pylant Medical | 15 | $5,928 |
| Smith+Nephew | 27 | $4,538 |
| Arthrex | 31 | $2,299 |
| Arcuro Medical Inc | 1 | $2,000 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $1,769 |
| Stryker | 5 | $398 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 9 | $342 |
| Vericel Corporation | 2 | $226 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 2 | $119 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC | 1 | $100 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 5 | $89 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $81 |
| Mission Medical Distribution, LLC | 1 | $38 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $38 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $27 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Axogen | 1 | $17 |
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.
- ACUFEX Meniscal Root Repair$2,464
- NOVOSTITCH$2,176
- Q-FIX$2,032
- SUPERBALL$2,000
- CAP-FIX$1,898
- Healicoil$1,898
- OVOMotion$802
- HemiCAP$548
- ULTRABUTTON$456
- Integrity$299
- REGENESORB$284
- Coblation Wands$284
- Clancy Anatomic Cruciate Guide$278
- Meniscal Root Repair System$278
- TACTOSET$278
- MACI$226
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$151
- GAMMA$141
- TFN ADVANCED$125
- RADIAL HEAD PROSTHESIS$125
How this compares
$18,239 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 437 sports medicine 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Lidocaine | 11 | $2,386 |
| Etodolac | 25 | $801 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 13 | $617 |
| Meloxicam | 164 | $494 |
| Methylprednisolone | 43 | $435 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 39 | $420 |
| Celecoxib | 35 | $405 |
| Gabapentin | 48 | $291 |
| Ibuprofen | 19 | $107 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Southlake
- Skyler HoelscherSouthlake$40K
- Timothy VachrisAustin$5.7M
- Thomas DeberardinoSan Antonio$3.5M
- Mark HutchensAustin$2.5M
- Robert ScheinbergDallas$2.2M
- Marc LabbeThe Woodlands$2M
- Walter LoweHouston$1.4M
- Reed BartzSunnyvale$1.2M
- David BrownHouston$920K
- James GregoryHouston$848K
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.