David Michaeli
Orthopaedic Surgery · San Antonio, TXNPI 1215408364
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 68 payments — averaging $581.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$22K
- Arthrex$10K
- Stryker$5K
- Johnson & Johnson$768
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$346
- Si-bone, Inc.$303
- plus $920 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$30,00076%
- Travel & lodging$5,54814%
- Food & beverage$3,3178%
- Education$5851%
- Entertainment$610%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 15 | $22,035 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $10,000 |
| Stryker | 26 | $5,139 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $768 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $346 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $303 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $146 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $143 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 2 | $130 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $120 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $73 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $66 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $62 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $46 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $19 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $14 |
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.
- PRO$3,514
- EVOS$2,862
- TRIGEN$1,251
- TRIGEN InterTAN$1,251
- EVOS MINI$1,251
- MAKO$747
- NA$515
- T2 ALPHA$263
- TFN-Advance$254
- Avitus Bone Harvester$146
- VA-LCP$133
- ALLOFIBER$132
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$132
- GRAFTJACKET$132
- EXPAREL$125
- MACI$120
How this compares
$39,511 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.
Other orthopaedic surgery in San Antonio
- Stephen BurkhartSan Antonio$185.3M
- Michael WirthSan Antonio$4.5M
- Charles BroomeSan Antonio$3.8M
- Christopher ChaputSan Antonio$1.1M
- Ravi KariaSan Antonio$1.1M
- Charles RockwoodSan Antonio$975K
- Frank ButtacavoliSan Antonio$932K
- Robert HartzlerSan Antonio$702K
- Bernard MorreySan Antonio$639K
- Animesh AgarwalSan Antonio$440K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.