Dale Funk, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Abilene, TXNPI 1639122179
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 118 payments — averaging $39.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pylant Medical$2K
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$509
- Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$489
- Stryker$341
- Johnson & Johnson$213
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$170
- plus $1K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,44474%
- Education$1,20026%
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 | 13 | $1,580 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 13 | $509 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $489 |
| Stryker | 6 | $341 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $213 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 12 | $170 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 8 | $152 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $126 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 8 | $124 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $109 |
| Argentum Medical | 1 | $106 |
| Vertex | 4 | $79 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $76 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $50 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Hydrocision, Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $41 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $34 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 1 | $33 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $27 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Abbott | 1 | $21 |
| Orthogenrx Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $17 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 1 | $8 |
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.
- RevoMotion$143
- MAKO$114
- Iovera$103
How this compares
$4,644 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | 222 | $991 |
| Methocarbamol | 108 | $787 |
| Meloxicam | 156 | $699 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 68 | $660 |
| Ibuprofen | 50 | $385 |
| Cefazolin Sodium | 27 | $357 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 27 | $352 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 61 | $296 |
| Gabapentin | 44 | $248 |
| Methylprednisolone | 33 | $187 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 15 | $165 |
| Tramadol Hcl-AcetaminophenTramadol Hcl/Acetaminophen | 15 | $95 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 12 | $15 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Abilene
- Stephen BurkhartSan Antonio$185.3M
- Kirby HittTemple$9.1M
- J Richard EvansonPlano$8.1M
- Stefan KreuzerHouston$7M
- Robert GrahamAustin$6.3M
- Richard JonesDallas$6.3M
- Howard HarrisBedford$4.6M
- Tiffany HuynhHouston$4.6M
- Michael WirthSan Antonio$4.5M
- Stephen IncavoHouston$4.3M
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.