David Brigati, MD
Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Austin, TXNPI 1578846002
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 77 payments — averaging $44.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$897
- Amgen$306
- Zimmer Biomet$140
- Radius Health, Inc.$129
- Bioventus LLC$120
- plus $614 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$81424%
- Food & beverage$2,58476%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 15 | $1,193 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $897 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 17 | $306 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 5 | $140 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $129 |
| Bioventus LLC | 5 | $120 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $108 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $104 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Orthalign Inc | 1 | $44 |
| Vertex | 2 | $43 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $26 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| CTL Medical Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $18 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $15 |
| Abbott | 1 | $14 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 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.
How this compares
$3,398 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 86 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.
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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 | 446 | $2,337 |
| Methocarbamol | 164 | $2,199 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 172 | $2,121 |
| Celecoxib | 87 | $1,514 |
| Meloxicam | 332 | $935 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 144 | $897 |
| Pregabalin | 24 | $845 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 48 | $430 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 27 | $328 |
| Alendronate Sodium | 41 | $298 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 59 | $273 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 21 | $224 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 14 | $211 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 15 | $122 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Austin
- Tyler GoldbergAustin$4.6M
- Karl KoenigAustin$70K
- Benjamin McArthurAustin$27K
- William AbblittAustin$17K
- Erin DunlapAustin$8K
- Antonia ChenDallas$4.1M
- John BarringtonPlano$2.2M
- Donald HohmanDallas$1M
- Roger EmersonPlano$1M
- Marcus FordFort Worth$401K
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.