Casey Cates, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Dallas, TXNPI 1497872774
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $38,925 of the $61,766 with a category attached, or 63.0%. Globus Medical accounts for 98.0% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $26,522, more than ten times the $23 reported in 2020. Among orthopaedic 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 71 payments — averaging $869.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$61K
- Acuity Surgical Devices, LLC$617
- Stryker$234
- Bone Support Inc.$148
- Innovation Technologies Inc$63
- Ossur Americas, Inc.$43
- plus $105 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$14,13523%
- Consulting fees$38,92563%
- Travel & lodging$6,78311%
- Food & beverage$1,9243%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 54 | $60,557 |
| Acuity Surgical Devices, LLC | 1 | $617 |
| Stryker | 7 | $234 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $63 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Pylant Medical | 2 | $43 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $22 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Autobahn$26,156
- A/R Femoral Nail$15,561
- Anthem$11,512
- Clavical Fixation (16-186)$3,417
- EVO Antegrade$3,411
- CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$148
- CERAMENT G$148
- Distal Radius Plate$129
How this compares
$61,766 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Dallas
- Richard JonesDallas$6.3M
- James BrodskyDallas$2.5M
- Sumant KrishnanDallas$1.9M
- Wayne BurkheadDallas$1.2M
- Bradford WaddellDallas$325K
- Jay MabreyDallas$310K
- Eddie LoDallas$276K
- Clinton BellDallas$261K
- Jesus ReyDallas$227K
- Stephen BurkhartSan Antonio$185.3M
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.