Brian Schulze, MD
Sports Medicine · Live Oak, TXNPI 1407960685
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 21 payments — averaging $126.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Davol Inc.$266
- Bard Access Systems, Inc.$147
- Acumed LLC$84
- Fidia Pharma USA Inc.$24
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$20
- plus $33 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,39853%
- Food & beverage$1,26247%
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 | 9 | $2,085 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $266 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $84 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $20 |
| BD | 1 | $18 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $15 |
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.
- OR3O Dual Mobility$1,805
- RI.HIP NAVIGATION$1,805
- JOURNEY$1,805
- POLARSTEM$1,282
- Tandem$523
- PROGEL$147
- Surgiphor$144
- K-15 PORK$119
How this compares
$2,659 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 437 sports medicine 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 | 84 | $1,181 |
| Ibuprofen | 41 | $286 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 20 | $206 |
| Naproxen | 23 | $191 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 18 | $148 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 21 | $112 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 14 | $74 |
| Mupirocin | 11 | $55 |
| Amoxicillin | 11 | $20 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Live Oak
- Timothy VachrisAustin$5.7M
- Thomas DeberardinoSan Antonio$3.5M
- Mark HutchensAustin$2.5M
- Robert ScheinbergDallas$2.2M
- Marc LabbeThe Woodlands$2M
- Walter LoweHouston$1.4M
- Reed BartzSunnyvale$1.2M
- David BrownHouston$920K
- James GregoryHouston$848K
- Matthew HiggsHouston$634K
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.