Dane Wukich, MD
Foot and Ankle Surgery · Dallas, TXNPI 1184690489
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $143,951 of the $188,785 with a category attached, or 76.3%. Arthrex accounts for 76.3% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $40,325 and has fallen 51.8% since, to $19,424 in 2025. Among foot and ankle 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 64 payments — averaging $2949.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$144K
- Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc.$20K
- Stryker$12K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$10K
- Pylant Medical$3K
- Zimmer Biomet$142
- plus $577 from 9 others
Across 56 payments — averaging $1495.28 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.
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$84K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$143,95176%
- Consulting fees$37,33520%
- Travel & lodging$3,3762%
- Food & beverage$1,7061%
- Education$2,4171%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 28 | $143,951 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 6 | $19,544 |
| Stryker | 8 | $11,804 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $10,135 |
| Pylant Medical | 4 | $2,632 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $142 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 2 | $137 |
| Change Healthcare Technologies, LLC | 1 | $127 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $83 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $49 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $38 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $29 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
- ARTHREX$103,153
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS SOFT TISSUE PLANTAR PLATE$28,917
- Topical wound oxygen$19,544
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS FOREFOOT PLANTAR PLATE$11,881
- SALVATION$11,200
- JUNIORTHO PLATING SYSTEM$6,885
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES INSTRUMENTS DISPOSABLE KITS TENODESIS$6,034
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES INSTRUMENTS SOFT TISSUE DISPOSABLE KITS$4,902
- XCaliber Meta-Diaphyseal Fixator$3,250
- MiniRail System$3,250
- Galaxy UNYCO$3,250
- XWires$3,250
- RadioLucent Wrist Fixator$3,250
- Comprehensive SRS$142
- INFINITY$131
- Change Healthcare Radiology Solutions$127
- TMC NANOPLASTY SYSTEM$121
How this compares
$188,785 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 684 foot and 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 28 | $361 |
| Gabapentin | 15 | $240 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 16 | $105 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot and ankle surgery in Dallas
- Eugene CurryDallas$3.1M
- Paul KimDallas$928K
- John EarlyDallas$553K
- Charles CookDallas$92K
- Trapper LalliDallas$74K
- Veerabhadra ReddyDallas$59K
- John NoackDallas$49K
- William McGarveyKaty$3.5M
- Graham HamiltonEdinburg$2.1M
- Mark DaltonAustin$1.9M
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.