Christopher Chaput, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · San Antonio, TXNPI 1710947783
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $893,285 of the $959,082 with a category attached, or 93.1%. Globus Medical accounts for 96.6% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 154 payments — averaging $6227.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$927K
- Cerapedics Inc.$15K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$10K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$3K
- Medline Industries LP$1K
- Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc.$419
- plus $2K from 17 others
Across 41 payments — averaging $4322.28 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Cerapedics Inc.$89K
- Globus Medical$46K
- Pfizer$22K
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$20K
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) | 79 | $926,839 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 22 | $15,140 |
| 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 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $25 |
| 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
$959,082 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
- Ravi KariaSan Antonio$1.1M
- Charles RockwoodSan Antonio$975K
- Frank ButtacavoliSan Antonio$866K
- Robert HartzlerSan Antonio$654K
- Bernard MorreySan Antonio$639K
- Animesh AgarwalSan Antonio$408K
- Ralph GarzaSan Antonio$390K
- Anil DuttaSan Antonio$276K
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.