Christopher Chaput, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · San Antonio, TXNPI 1710947783
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 195 payments — averaging $5827.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$973K
- Cerapedics Inc.$105K
- Pfizer$22K
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$20K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$10K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$3K
- plus $4K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$893,28593%
- Consulting fees$27,7843%
- Speaking & faculty fees$10,7501%
- Travel & lodging$20,3422%
- Food & beverage$6,7841%
- Entertainment$1380%
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(2 entities) | 97 | $972,675 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 39 | $104,618 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $22,375 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 4 | $19,550 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $9,533 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 12 | $3,456 |
| Medline Industries LP | 5 | $1,266 |
| Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $419 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $390 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 1 | $332 |
| Circinus Medical Technology LLC | 1 | $328 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 2 | $250 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 2 | $180 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $152 |
| Vertex | 4 | $147 |
| Nexxt Spine LLC | 1 | $133 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $123 |
| Limacorporate S.p.a. | 1 | $120 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $94 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $82 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Abbott | 1 | $17 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 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.
- Quartex$898,535
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$13,581
- Excelsius - GPS$9,561
- EXPAREL$9,417
- Viacell$9,000
- XLIF$4,500
- MISCELLANEOUS$2,856
- i-FACTOR Putty$1,500
- RISE$949
- Spine$821
- Bolt Navigation$328
- RISE-L$206
- SECURE-C$204
- Pulse$194
- FITBONE$189
- Simplify Cervical Artificial Disc$165
- LATIS Lateral$163
- PRODISC L$152
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$150
- 7D Surgical System$132
How this compares
$1,136,296 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 17 | $237 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 13 | $139 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in San Antonio
- Stephen BurkhartSan Antonio$185.3M
- Michael WirthSan Antonio$4.5M
- Charles BroomeSan Antonio$3.8M
- Ravi KariaSan Antonio$1.1M
- Charles RockwoodSan Antonio$975K
- Frank ButtacavoliSan Antonio$932K
- Robert HartzlerSan Antonio$702K
- Bernard MorreySan Antonio$639K
- Animesh AgarwalSan Antonio$440K
- Ralph GarzaSan Antonio$390K
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.