Augustus Rush, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Dallas, TXNPI 1255726444
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (47.8%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 38 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.4%. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $75,047 and has fallen 91.4% since, to $6,417 in 2025.
Across 361 payments — averaging $387.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Axis Spine Technologies Inc.$31K
- Augmedics Inc.$31K
- Theragen, Inc.$21K
- Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC$11K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$10K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$6K
- plus $29K from 32 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$10,9888%
- Consulting fees$66,95148%
- Speaking & faculty fees$18,40613%
- Travel & lodging$28,64020%
- Food & beverage$14,72211%
- Education$2160%
- Entertainment$140%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Axis Spine Technologies Inc. | 9 | $31,388 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 87 | $31,136 |
| Theragen, Inc. | 19 | $20,960 |
| Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC | 2 | $10,988 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 20 | $9,949 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 19 | $6,308 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 8 | $4,815 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 39 | $4,368 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 7 | $3,094 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 8 | $1,757 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $1,672 |
| 4web, Inc. | 1 | $1,500 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 7 | $1,457 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 7 | $1,420 |
| Pylant Medical | 4 | $1,170 |
| Stryker | 9 | $1,042 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 20 | $851 |
| Corelink, LLC | 6 | $794 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 9 | $696 |
| Arthrex | 9 | $628 |
| Spineology Inc. | 4 | $602 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 1 | $572 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 20 | $535 |
| Medtronic | 13 | $531 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 3 | $475 |
| MML US, Inc. | 2 | $282 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 7 | $233 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 2 | $166 |
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 1 | $164 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 3 | $99 |
| Innovasis Inc | 1 | $61 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| Wenzel Spine, Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Novabone Products | 1 | $31 |
| EBI, LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Xvision$146,327
- ALIF$27,397
- ActaStim-S$20,845
- Mariner$8,276
- Mariner MIS$8,033
- Shoreline RT$7,375
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$5,003
- Manta Ray$4,500
- Axis Spine Technologies ALIF$4,024
- XLIF$2,163
- Teligen$1,543
- SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$1,500
- MYSPINE$1,177
- FlareHawk$1,057
- Vital$1,056
- Excelsius Robotics System$823
- TRIATHLON$568
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$519
- Strand$500
- 7D Surgical System$463
How this compares
$139,936 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 | 28 | $288 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 20 | $257 |
| Gabapentin | 20 | $167 |
| Methocarbamol | 15 | $86 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Dallas
- Andrew ClavennaDallas$1.3M
- Sean Jones QuaidooDallas$550K
- William HotchkissDallas$510K
- Randall DryerAustin$2.9M
- Craig KuhnsAustin$2.4M
- David WimberleyHouston$2.2M
- Jeffrey PhelpsNorth Richland Hills$1.9M
- Eric WieserArlington$1.5M
- Ivan ChengKyle$1.2M
- Stephen TolhurstFlower Mound$1.1M
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.