Craig Kuhns, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Austin, TXNPI 1922038108
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 552 payments — averaging $4942.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2.2M
- Spineart SA$146K
- Globus Medical$123K
- Amplify Surgical, Inc.$107K
- Spineology Inc.$78K
- Medtronic$36K
- plus $64K from 23 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $14,962 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.
- Spineology Inc.$30K
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 155 | $2,174,129 |
| Spineart SA | 12 | $145,693 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 104 | $123,377 |
| Amplify Surgical, Inc. | 18 | $107,284 |
| Spineology Inc. | 12 | $78,199 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 63 | $35,975 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 87 | $30,282 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 18 | $18,126 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $5,878 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 10 | $3,019 |
| Stryker | 30 | $1,741 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $1,548 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 7 | $725 |
| Acuity Surgical Devices, LLC | 1 | $579 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 5 | $342 |
| Abbott | 5 | $287 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $255 |
| Abyrx, Inc | 1 | $213 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $159 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $112 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 1 | $107 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $87 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $62 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $30 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Core Surgical Group | 1 | $26 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$2,728,310 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 207 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Texas.
See all orthopaedic surgery of the spine 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 of the spine in Austin
- Randall DryerAustin$2.9M
- Richard WuppermanAustin$808K
- Eeric TruumeesAustin$375K
- Matthew GeckAustin$100K
- David WimberleyHouston$2.2M
- Jeffrey PhelpsNorth Richland Hills$1.9M
- Eric WieserArlington$1.5M
- Richard GuyerPlano$1.3M
- Andrew ClavennaDallas$1.3M
- Ivan ChengKyle$1.2M
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.