David Lin, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Kingwood, TXNPI 1306936752
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 175 payments — averaging $99.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$9K
- Stryker$2K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$940
- Amgen$297
- plus $2K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,20019%
- Travel & lodging$2,80324%
- Food & beverage$6,44656%
- Education$951%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 9 | $8,558 |
| Stryker | 43 | $2,498 |
| Smith+Nephew | 18 | $1,862 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 6 | $1,551 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 12 | $940 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 17 | $297 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 16 | $266 |
| Bioventus LLC | 11 | $251 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $224 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $146 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 8 | $130 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 3 | $77 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 4 | $66 |
| ERMI LLC | 4 | $60 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 1 | $52 |
| Vertex | 2 | $47 |
| Vericel Corporation | 2 | $45 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Carbofix Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $34 |
| BD | 1 | $32 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $31 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $24 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Intellijoint Surgical Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $7 |
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.
- ENSITE$2,200
- TL-HEX TRUELOK HEXAPOD SYSTEM$1,551
- GENESIS II$763
- LEGION TKS$763
- ZUK Uni$763
- Journey II$763
- STRIDE UNI$763
- MAKO$675
- Oxford$638
- CORI$390
- Navio Surgical System$267
- REDAPT Revision Hip System$267
- Legion Revision$267
- Ensite Cardiac Mapping System$199
- INSIGNIA$150
- Xperience$146
- BlastX$146
- TACTICATH ABLATION CATHETER, SENSOR ENABLED$137
- Zynrelef$124
How this compares
$17,453 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 255 | $2,251 |
| Methylprednisolone | 168 | $1,249 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 51 | $1,019 |
| Meloxicam | 292 | $737 |
| Ibuprofen | 34 | $425 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 66 | $382 |
| Gabapentin | 54 | $309 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 93 | $283 |
| Celecoxib | 35 | $251 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 14 | $88 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Kingwood
- 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.