Has Bradford Waddell, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $324,814 in general payments to Bradford Waddell, MD across 300 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Bradford Waddell, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Bradford Waddell, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Bradford Waddell, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Dallas, TXNPI 1467689265

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $206,208 of the $324,814 with a category attached, or 63.5%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 87.6% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. 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.

$324,814in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 300 payments — averaging $1082.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$285K
Orthalign Inc$40K
Stryker$55
Johnson & Johnson$53

$117,463in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 8 payments — averaging $14,683 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.

Stryker$63K
Smith+Nephew$54K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$206,20863%
Speaking & faculty fees$77,03024%
Travel & lodging$31,96310%
Food & beverage$9,6133%

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
Smith+Nephew	264	$284,677
Orthalign Inc	30	$40,029
Stryker	2	$55
Johnson & Johnson	4	$53

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.

How this compares

$324,814 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$514,380

Medicare patients

672

Services billed

6,258

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
Oxycodone Hcl	243	$1,926
Ibuprofen	175	$1,898
Cefadroxil	229	$1,499
Ondansetron Hcl	198	$1,496
Omeprazole	234	$1,484
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	146	$1,451
Mupirocin	225	$1,448
Celecoxib	60	$1,354
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	88	$1,172
Diclofenac Sodium	81	$905
Pregabalin	138	$817
Etodolac	13	$389
Meloxicam	98	$359
Tramadol Hcl	67	$285
Gabapentin	42	$224

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Dallas

Richard JonesDallas$6.3M
James BrodskyDallas$2.5M
Sumant KrishnanDallas$1.9M
Wayne BurkheadDallas$1.2M
Jay MabreyDallas$310K
Eddie LoDallas$276K
Clinton BellDallas$261K
Jesus ReyDallas$227K
Stephen BurkhartSan Antonio$185.3M
Kirby HittTemple$9.1M

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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.

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