Christopher Browning, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Temple, TXNPI 1255338992
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 41 payments — averaging $87.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pylant Medical$2K
- Stryker$558
- Bone Support Inc.$284
- Axogen$270
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$268
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$235
- plus $450 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,05958%
- Education$1,51042%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pylant Medical | 7 | $1,505 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 7 | $558 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 2 | $284 |
| Axogen | 2 | $270 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 7 | $268 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 7 | $235 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $143 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $134 |
| Abbott | 1 | $99 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $21 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Lifenet Health | 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.
- INTEGRA$403
- CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$284
- CERAMENT G$284
- ORTHOLOC 3DI CROSSCHECK$230
- 7 X 23MM CITRELOCK IMPLANT$230
- FIXOS$230
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$230
- Lapiplasty System$147
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$143
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$143
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$143
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$143
- AxoGuard Nerve Cap$143
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$134
- PRIMATRIX$134
- SMART TOE$134
- Grafix PRIME$120
- Grafix CORE$120
- Grafix XC$120
- Grafix PL PRIME$120
How this compares
$3,569 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| JubliaEfinaconazole | 24 | $27,742 |
| SantylCollagenase Clostridium Hist. | 14 | $4,462 |
| Gabapentin | 69 | $1,893 |
| Ketoconazole | 30 | $822 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 24 | $501 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 81 | $454 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 47 | $394 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 15 | $348 |
| Mupirocin | 46 | $331 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 45 | $162 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 11 | $77 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 13 | $58 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $38 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+NephewSantyl | $134 | $4,46214 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 45th percentile of 684 foot & ankle surgery providers in Texas.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Temple
- Richard PollakSan Antonio$6.1M
- Joseph CaporussoMcAllen$6M
- Mark DaltonAustin$4.1M
- William McGarveyKaty$3.5M
- Eugene CurryDallas$3.1M
- Chad HowzeSan Antonio$2.4M
- Graham HamiltonEdinburg$2.1M
- Kevin VarnerHouston$1.1M
- Paul KimDallas$972K
- Mark RobsonAustin$957K
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.