Has Chester Donnally, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $122,551 in general payments to Chester Donnally, MD across 195 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 Chester Donnally, 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 Chester Donnally, 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.

Chester Donnally, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Addison, TXNPI 1730506072

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (48.7%), royalties or licence payments and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 39 manufacturers reported payments, led by Evolution Spine, LLC at 30.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $63,232 and has fallen 80.1% since, to $12,559 in 2025.

$122,551in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 195 payments — averaging $628.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Evolution Spine, LLC$38K
Fuse Medical, Inc.$25K
Bioventus LLC$17K
Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC$10K
Globus Medical$10K
The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education$6K
plus $17K from 33 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$29,77324%
Consulting fees$59,73449%
Speaking & faculty fees$19,52516%
Travel & lodging$6,7746%
Food & beverage$6,1085%
Education$6371%

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
Evolution Spine, LLC	15	$37,807
Fuse Medical, Inc.	1	$25,000
Bioventus LLC	9	$16,918
Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC	6	$10,056
Globus Medical(2 entities)	25	$9,629
The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education	5	$5,843
Camber Spine Technologies LLC	16	$5,456
Spineology Inc.	6	$2,625
Amplify Surgical, Inc.	1	$2,400
Stryker	12	$1,866
Medtronic(2 entities)	10	$934
Cerapedics Inc.	8	$588
Augmedics Inc.	25	$578
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	12	$492
Alphatec Spine, Inc	2	$433
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA	1	$421
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	5	$361
4web, Inc.	6	$252
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$143
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	2	$95
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$65
Highridge Medical LLC	2	$62
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$61
Intrinsic Therapeutics	5	$55
Spinal Elements, Inc.	2	$51
Captiva Spine Inc	1	$49
Smith+Nephew	1	$43
Elevation Spine, Inc.	1	$41
Circinus Medical Technology LLC	1	$32
Misonix Inc	1	$30
EBI, LLC	1	$29
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$22
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$21
Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.	1	$20
Life Spine, Inc.	1	$19
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	1	$15
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$15
Medacta USA, Inc.	1	$14
Expanding Innovations, Inc.	1	$12

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.

Integrated ALIF System$24,492
Emerge Anterior Cervical Plate System$13,293
BoneScalpel$10,781
Quartex$8,305
BONESCALPEL & SONICONE (O.R.)$4,844
OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$2,500
dualX$2,400
I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$1,500
NEXUS-10 MKII$1,250
Orthros$1,050
ANCHOR C$691
ESCALATE$691
XIA$691
SERRATO$691
OASYS$691
YUKON$510
BIOLOGICS$433
COMBOGESIC IV$421
MAZOR X SYSTEM$412
nanoLOCK-C$327

How this compares

$122,551 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 207 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$326,997

Medicare patients

317

Services billed

1,321

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-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	40	$589
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	39	$520
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	34	$515
Oxycodone Hcl	57	$399
Methocarbamol	42	$388
Gabapentin	39	$346
Methylprednisolone	45	$278
Pregabalin	11	$168
Tramadol Hcl	26	$125
Ondansetron Hcl	14	$51
Meloxicam	28	$38

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Addison

Andrew ParkAddison$304K
Randall DryerAustin$2.9M
Craig KuhnsAustin$2.4M
David WimberleyHouston$2.2M
Jeffrey PhelpsNorth Richland Hills$1.9M
Eric WieserArlington$1.5M
Andrew ClavennaDallas$1.3M
Ivan ChengKyle$1.2M
Stephen TolhurstFlower Mound$1.1M
Michael ObrienPlano$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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