Brent Banks, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Fort Worth, TXNPI 1205066461
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (45.4%), royalties or licence payments and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Vilex LLC at 50.0% of the total. Among foot & ankle 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 146 payments — averaging $542.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vilex LLC$40K
- Novastep Inc.$31K
- Osteomed LLC$3K
- Ossio Inc$3K
- Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC$1K
- Stryker$700
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$19,42325%
- Consulting fees$35,91245%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,2507%
- Travel & lodging$13,90318%
- Food & beverage$4,6856%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vilex LLC | 49 | $39,568 |
| Novastep Inc. | 19 | $30,556 |
| Osteomed LLC | 2 | $3,050 |
| Ossio Inc | 2 | $3,000 |
| Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC | 11 | $1,112 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 23 | $700 |
| Medshape, Inc. | 3 | $198 |
| Amgen | 13 | $192 |
| Trilliant Surgical LLC. | 2 | $170 |
| Ortho Solutions Inc | 2 | $163 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $162 |
| Misonix Inc | 3 | $100 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $62 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 2 | $40 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $23 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $12 |
| Glenmark Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Artemis$23,565
- PECA Bunion Correction System$11,246
- HINTERMANN$7,680
- CENTROLOCK MIS Bunion Correction$7,020
- PECAPLASTY$6,724
- DYNEX$3,777
- EXT-ExtremiLock Ankle$2,000
- Optix$1,480
- TAR$1,197
- EXT-Other$1,050
- RD MIS Distal Bunion$1,024
- Medical Implant$880
- Arsenal Ankle$141
- MICA$134
- DynaNail Helix, Washer, 15 mm$132
- SALVATION$126
- Grafix PRIME$122
- Grafix CORE$122
- Grafix XC$122
- Grafix PL PRIME$122
How this compares
$79,173 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 684 foot & ankle 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Terbinafine Hcl | 142 | $3,920 |
| Pregabalin | 78 | $3,693 |
| Ciclopirox | 44 | $1,853 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 78 | $818 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 20 | $485 |
| Fluconazole | 24 | $448 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 33 | $341 |
| Celecoxib | 12 | $240 |
| Gabapentin | 18 | $236 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 22 | $191 |
| CiclopiroxCiclopirox Olamine | 11 | $178 |
| Meloxicam | 58 | $141 |
| Methylprednisolone | 16 | $133 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 14 | $125 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 13 | $109 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Fort Worth
- William CrawfordFort Worth$98K
- William McGarveyKaty$3.5M
- Eugene CurryDallas$3.1M
- Graham HamiltonEdinburg$2.1M
- Mark DaltonAustin$1.9M
- Kevin VarnerHouston$1.1M
- Paul KimDallas$928K
- Sherman NaglerHouston$602K
- John EarlyDallas$553K
- Michael DowneySouthlake$475K
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.