Blake Staub, MD
Neurological Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1851525943
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $129,116 of the $170,843 with a category attached, or 75.6%. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 28.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $61,062, 3.1 times the $19,940 reported in 2019. Among neurological surgery clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 236 payments — averaging $723.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$48K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$42K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$40K
- Globus Medical$21K
- Curiteva, Inc.$9K
- Choice Spine, LLC$8K
- plus $4K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$129,11676%
- Speaking & faculty fees$11,5957%
- Travel & lodging$22,54513%
- Food & beverage$7,5874%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 57 | $47,836 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 38 | $41,549 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 51 | $39,961 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 47 | $20,655 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 4 | $8,649 |
| Choice Spine, LLC | 6 | $8,222 |
| Clariance, Inc. | 9 | $1,292 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $402 |
| Acuity Surgical Devices, LLC | 5 | $317 |
| Degen Medical, Inc. | 1 | $261 |
| Axis Spine Technologies Inc. | 1 | $252 |
| Nexxt Spine LLC | 1 | $235 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 2 | $228 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $206 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $125 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $120 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $100 |
| Nanovis LLC | 1 | $80 |
| CTL Medical Corporation | 1 | $77 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $73 |
| VB Spine LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Stryker | 1 | $24 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Other - Miscellaneous$31,472
- Mariner$29,998
- PLX$14,375
- MazorX - Renaissance$10,975
- Pelvic Screws$7,538
- CREO$6,194
- THUNDERBOLT MINIMALLY INVASIVE AND LANCER OPEN PEDICLE SCREW SYSTEM$5,888
- DIVERGENCE-L$5,062
- INFUSE BONE GRAFT$3,850
- MISCELLANEOUS$3,750
- Mariner Deformity$3,404
- INFUSE$3,300
- VERTEX$2,891
- O-ARM-Spine$2,891
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$2,200
- MASTERGRAFT$2,200
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$1,745
- ENDOSKELETON TL NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$1,375
- RISE-L$1,311
- nanoLOCK-L$1,238
How this compares
$170,843 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 582 neurological surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 107 | $1,472 |
| Gabapentin | 66 | $523 |
| Methocarbamol | 76 | $434 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 14 | $205 |
| Methylprednisolone | 24 | $167 |
| Meloxicam | 50 | $161 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 13 | $100 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Houston
- Andrew RoeserHouston$660K
- Paul HolmanHouston$516K
- Taylor GistHouston$447K
- Meng HuangHouston$324K
- Laurence RhinesHouston$322K
- Omar TanweerHouston$254K
- Jeremy WangHouston$231K
- Alexander RopperHouston$208K
- Fangyi ZhangHouston$192K
- Ashwin ViswanathanHouston$185K
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.