David Rubin, MD
Neurological Surgery · Irving, TXNPI 1013160209
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (56.8%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Aurora Spine, Inc. accounts for 62.1% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,505, 5.4 times the $839 reported in 2019.
Across 63 payments — averaging $226.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Aurora Spine, Inc.$9K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$2K
- Stryker$1K
- Boston Scientific$510
- Pylant Medical$340
- Medtronic$325
- plus $1K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$8,08657%
- Travel & lodging$1,87613%
- Food & beverage$4,27730%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aurora Spine, Inc. | 6 | $8,842 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 15 | $1,841 |
| Stryker | 14 | $1,338 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $510 |
| Pylant Medical | 3 | $340 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $325 |
| Corelink, LLC | 2 | $289 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 3 | $284 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $203 |
| Wenzel Spine, Inc. | 1 | $163 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 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.
- DISCOVERY TINANO ACIF$8,086
- MYSPINE$1,216
- ZIP$756
- T2$495
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$344
- GAMMA$281
- GMK SPHERE$266
- HYDROSET$200
- MAKO$171
- Varilift$163
- PRECICE Intramedullary Limb Lengthening System$158
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$128
- INTELLIS$121
How this compares
$14,239 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 582 neurological 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 neurological surgery in Irving
- Koijan KainthThe Woodlands$1.3M
- Luis DuarteSan Angelo$1.2M
- Douglas FoxAustin$948K
- Richard MeyratDallas$883K
- Adam LewisCorpus Christi$792K
- Arnold VardimanSan Antonio$687K
- Andrew RoeserHouston$660K
- Scott RobertsonRound Rock$606K
- Sabatino BiancoArlington$564K
- Rebecca StachniakPlano$561K
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.