Has David Ferguson, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $19,429 in general payments to David Ferguson, MD across 63 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean David Ferguson, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about David Ferguson, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

David Ferguson, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Waco, TXNPI 1811131097

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $12,375 of the $19,429 with a category attached, or 63.7%. Arthrex accounts for 73.6% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $12,068 and has fallen 99.4% since, to $76 in 2025.

$19,429in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 63 payments — averaging $308.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$14K
Stryker$3K
Pylant Medical$2K
Zimmer Biomet$134
Exactech, Inc.$101
Smith+Nephew$12

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$12,37564%
Travel & lodging$2,30612%
Food & beverage$1,7219%
Education$3,02716%

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	18	$14,291
Stryker	34	$2,698
Pylant Medical	7	$2,192
Zimmer Biomet	2	$134
Exactech, Inc.	1	$101
Smith+Nephew	1	$12

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.

ARTHROPLASTY IMPLANTS KNEE ARTHROPLASTY TOTAL KNEE$9,561
MAKO$1,530
ARTHROPLASTY INSTRUMENTS KNEE ARTHROPLASTY TOTAL KNEE$1,250
ARTHROPLASTY IMPLANTS KNEE ARTHROPLASTY PATELLO FEMORAL$1,250
TRULIANT$101

How this compares

$19,429 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 86 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$370,078

Medicare patients

576

Services billed

4,488

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
Diclofenac Sodium ErDiclofenac Sodium	326	$10,395
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	406	$5,237
Doxycycline Monohydrate	132	$3,523
EliquisApixaban	13	$1,998
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	139	$1,868
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	143	$1,703
Pantoprazole Sodium	188	$1,605
Cefadroxil	92	$1,257
Naloxone Hcl	19	$1,138
Doxycycline Hyclate	35	$688
Ketorolac Tromethamine	48	$410
Methocarbamol	20	$178
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	151	$134
Diclofenac Sodium	14	$100
Clindamycin Hcl	34	$22

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Waco

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Roger EmersonPlano$691K
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Steven WeedenFort Worth$370K
Marcus FordFort Worth$296K
Raul MarquezEdinburg$278K
Richard ReitmanPlano$227K
Brian FullerCarrollton$218K

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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.

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