David Ring, MD
Hand Surgery · Austin, TXNPI 1568452746
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $518,447 of the $536,309 with a category attached, or 96.7%. Skeletal Dynamics Inc accounts for 96.3% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $107,415 and has fallen 84.3% since, to $16,915 in 2025. Among hand 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 45 payments — averaging $11,918 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$517K
- Vertex$12K
- Synthes GmbH$5K
- Stryker$2K
- Pfizer$630
- Globus Medical$140
- plus $18 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$518,44797%
- Consulting fees$6,7201%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,2501%
- Travel & lodging$7,3901%
- Food & beverage$5020%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 26 | $516,683 |
| Vertex | 8 | $12,203 |
| Synthes GmbH | 5 | $4,823 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 3 | $1,812 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $630 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $140 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $18 |
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
$536,309 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 170 hand 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.
Other hand surgery in Austin
- Luke SeekerAustin$18K
- Harris RoseAustin$12K
- Ronald BuczekAustin$12K
- Jeffrey JobeAustin$10K
- Manish PatelAustin$9K
- Kourosh JafarniaHouston$278K
- Brendan MackayLubbock$274K
- John FaillaceWoodway$212K
- Daniel KoehlerDallas$208K
- Timothy NiacarisArlington$160K
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.