Boris Zelle, MD
Orthopaedic Trauma · San Antonio, TXNPI 1316140536
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $74,764 of the $97,506 with a category attached, or 76.7%. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by KCI USA, Inc. at 55.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $23,706 and has fallen 71.0% since, to $6,872 in 2025.
Across 224 payments — averaging $435.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- KCI USA, Inc.$54K
- Synthes USA Products LLC$10K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$10K
- Solventum Corporation$8K
- Stryker$4K
- Johnson & Johnson$4K
- plus $8K from 19 others
Across 18 payments — averaging $36,483 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- KCI USA, Inc.$450K
- Solventum Corporation$131K
- Stryker$66K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$9K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$74,76477%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,0132%
- Travel & lodging$6,7807%
- Food & beverage$13,95014%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| KCI USA, Inc. | 45 | $53,736 |
| Synthes USA Products LLC | 9 | $10,220 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $10,209 |
| Solventum Corporation | 5 | $7,853 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 48 | $4,223 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 45 | $3,612 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $1,726 |
| Smith+Nephew | 17 | $1,147 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 8 | $815 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $691 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 5 | $582 |
| Bioventus LLC | 8 | $451 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $424 |
| Mission Medical Distribution, LLC | 3 | $290 |
| Synthes GmbH | 2 | $266 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $188 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $159 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $157 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $135 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $127 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $113 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $97 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $23 |
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.
- PREVENA$36,156
- PREVENA RESTOR ARTHROFORM$18,772
- PREVENA RESTOR AXIOFORM$18,618
- PREVENA RESTOR BELLAFORM$17,993
- VAC VERAFLO$14,025
- PREVENA RESTOR AXIO-FORM$13,285
- PREVENA RESTOR ARTHO-FORM$13,160
- PREVENA RESTOR ROTO-FORM$12,969
- Prevena Restor Bella Form$11,410
- EX NAILS$9,485
- IM NAILS$9,360
- Kerecis SurgiClose$6,400
- PREVENA RESTOR ROTOFORM$5,085
- Kerecis GraftGuide$1,600
- NA$1,480
- INTEGRA$1,419
- MAKO$1,235
- V.A.C. VERAFLO$938
- VA-LCP$867
- TFN-Advance$785
How this compares
$97,506 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 74 orthopaedic trauma 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.
Other orthopaedic trauma in San Antonio
- Case MartinSan Antonio$11K
- Cory CollingeFort Worth$2.8M
- John MunzHouston$1M
- Kyle DicksonHouston$975K
- Timothy AchorHouston$561K
- Jonathan EastmanHouston$361K
- Stephen WarnerHouston$357K
- Edgar AraizaDallas$270K
- Milton L RouttHouston$266K
- Andrew ChooHouston$262K
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.