Bernard Morrey
Orthopaedic Surgery · San Antonio, TXNPI 1669450888
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $424,228 of the $638,842 with a category attached, or 66.4%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 64.9% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $267,240 and has fallen 99.3% since, to $2,000 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 93 payments — averaging $6869.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$414K
- Trice Medical, Inc.$129K
- Tenex Health Inc.$84K
- Stryker$10K
- Ortho Development Corporation$799
- Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC$134
- plus $135 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$424,22866%
- Consulting fees$209,70433%
- Travel & lodging$3,7231%
- Food & beverage$1,1870%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 11 | $414,414 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 34 | $129,219 |
| Tenex Health Inc. | 26 | $84,135 |
| Stryker | 11 | $10,005 |
| Ortho Development Corporation | 7 | $799 |
| Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC | 2 | $134 |
| Orthalign Inc | 1 | $120 |
| Abbott | 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.
- Nexel Elbow$414,318
- RHEAD$8,920
- STABILITY$4,954
- UHEAD$4,954
- SIGMOID NOTCH$1,254
- STAR$991
- ORTHALIGN PLUS$120
How this compares
$638,842 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.
Other orthopaedic surgery in San Antonio
- Stephen BurkhartSan Antonio$185.3M
- Michael WirthSan Antonio$4.5M
- Ravi KariaSan Antonio$1.1M
- Charles RockwoodSan Antonio$975K
- Christopher ChaputSan Antonio$959K
- Frank ButtacavoliSan Antonio$866K
- Robert HartzlerSan Antonio$654K
- Animesh AgarwalSan Antonio$408K
- Ralph GarzaSan Antonio$390K
- Anil DuttaSan Antonio$276K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.