RxDoctor Payments Data

Andrew Pham, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Austin, TXNPI 1487918439

Payments from drug & device makers

$21,288in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 223 payments — averaging $95.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Globus Medical$3K
  • Abbott$3K
  • Medtronic$2K
  • Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
  • Si-bone, Inc.$2K
  • plus $8K from 31 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$7,20734%
  • Food & beverage$13,93265%
  • Education$1211%
  • Entertainment$280%

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

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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.

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

$21,288 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 207 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$123,587
Medicare patients
215
Services billed
2,909

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Gabapentin51$474
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl69$439
Meloxicam95$236
Methocarbamol43$135
Methylprednisolone22$129
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen14$103
Ondansetron Hcl11$70

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Austin

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Where these figures come from

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