Bradley Weiner, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1649234642
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $3,496 of the $4,393 with a category attached, or 79.6%. Medacta USA, Inc. accounts for 78.4% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,467 and has fallen 90.7% since, to $324 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $4,671.
Across 16 payments — averaging $274.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medacta USA, Inc.$3K
- Innovasis Inc$378
- VB Spine LLC$183
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$183
- Medtronic$102
- Baxter Healthcare$41
- plus $61 from 2 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $3557.56 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.
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$4K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,49680%
- Food & beverage$89720%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 7 | $3,445 |
| Innovasis Inc | 2 | $378 |
| VB Spine LLC | 2 | $183 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $183 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $102 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $41 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $39 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $22 |
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.
- MYSPINE$3,483
- Medical Devices$366
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$173
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$102
How this compares
$4,393 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 33 | $221 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 22 | $184 |
| Meloxicam | 37 | $182 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 16 | $62 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Houston
- Stefan KreuzerHouston$6.2M
- Stephen IncavoHouston$4.3M
- Thomas EdwardsHouston$4.1M
- Adam FreedhandHouston$1.8M
- Jeffrey KozakHouston$1.1M
- Travis HansonHouston$1M
- Thomas TanousHouston$698K
- Alan RechterHouston$605K
- Ugonna IhekweazuHouston$544K
- Darrell HansonHouston$284K
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.