Bernhard Meyer, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Houston, TXNPI 1225036429
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $207,135 of the $237,796 with a category attached, or 87.1%. Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. accounts for 88.1% of it on its own, with 31 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $119,460 and has fallen 97.1% since, to $3,510 in 2025.
Across 263 payments — averaging $904.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$209K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$8K
- Johnson & Johnson$5K
- Medtronic$3K
- Globus Medical$3K
- Cerapedics Inc.$2K
- plus $8K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$207,13587%
- Consulting fees$9,8404%
- Travel & lodging$3,3691%
- Food & beverage$17,4177%
- Education$360%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 10 | $209,475 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $8,269 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 64 | $4,776 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 28 | $2,696 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 21 | $2,664 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 12 | $1,756 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 9 | $1,748 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 10 | $910 |
| Amgen | 27 | $747 |
| Nevro Corp. | 6 | $505 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 5 | $481 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 2 | $469 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 3 | $435 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 21 | $433 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 4 | $358 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 3 | $287 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 9 | $229 |
| Stryker | 5 | $225 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $185 |
| Nexxt Spine LLC | 1 | $163 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $140 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 2 | $138 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $136 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $127 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $59 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $59 |
| Alvogen Inc | 2 | $41 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Novo Nordisk | 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.
- MATRIX$207,461
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$2,936
- SYNJECT$2,340
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$1,561
- SYMPHONY$1,222
- EXPEDIUM$1,196
- Excelsius Robotics System$863
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$807
- MOUNTAINEER$717
- VIPER$602
- CONDUIT$593
- Sentio$587
- SIMMETRY IMPLANT, 12.5MM X 50MM$510
- OSTEOCOOL RF ABLATION SYSTEM$427
- XLIF$389
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$387
- BASE$364
- iFuse Implant$290
- OsteoCentric 4.0 x 130mm LOCKING BONE SCREW FASTENER ST$260
- Medical Device$259
How this compares
$237,796 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 358 | $4,321 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 85 | $755 |
| Gabapentin | 120 | $752 |
| Celecoxib | 36 | $727 |
| Mupirocin | 31 | $206 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 27 | $192 |
| Methylprednisolone | 21 | $127 |
| Meloxicam | 56 | $123 |
| Cephalexin | 19 | $34 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 20 | $30 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Houston
- David WimberleyHouston$2.2M
- Shah-Nawaz DodwadHouston$710K
- Leonard KibuuleHouston$621K
- Vivek KushwahaHouston$573K
- Robert MohrHouston$352K
- Ryan StuckeyHouston$181K
- Rex MarcoHouston$174K
- Richard FrancisHouston$156K
- Ra'kerry RahmanHouston$45K
- Randall DryerAustin$2.9M
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.