RxDoctor Payments Data

David Vizurraga, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Fort Sam Houston, TXNPI 1447419619

Payments from drug & device makers

$15,302in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 191 payments — averaging $80.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Stryker$14K
  • Orthalign Inc$692
  • Zimmer Biomet$300
  • Think Surgical, Inc.$131
  • Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$84
  • Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$82
  • plus $133 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$1101%
  • Travel & lodging$5,08833%
  • Food & beverage$10,10466%

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

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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.

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

$15,302 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$223,419
Medicare patients
362
Services billed
2,717

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Naproxen575$4,562
Celecoxib59$815
Oxycodone Hcl110$621
Diclofenac Sodium15$293
Ondansetron Hcl88$260
Methylprednisolone25$185
Mupirocin18$136
Meloxicam61$124
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim18$119
Tramadol Hcl24$47
Amoxicillin18$14

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Fort Sam Houston

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