Donald Falknor
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1346290251
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 97.6% of the total across 126 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medline Industries LP at 27.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $1,954 and has fallen 96.0% since, to $79 in 2022. That places this record below the midpoint for foot & ankle surgery clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $3,901.
Across 126 payments — averaging $31.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medline Industries LP$1K
- Stryker$850
- Smith+Nephew$529
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$446
- Tactile Systems Technology Inc$168
- Organogenesis Inc.$154
- plus $766 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$872%
- Food & beverage$3,90198%
- Gifts$80%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medline Industries LP | 10 | $1,084 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 22 | $850 |
| Smith+Nephew | 38 | $529 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 4 | $446 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 14 | $168 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 6 | $154 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 7 | $142 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $118 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $89 |
| Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC | 1 | $81 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 2 | $79 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $39 |
| Merck | 3 | $37 |
| Misonix Inc | 2 | $37 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC | 2 | $33 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Amgen | 1 | $17 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $15 |
| Kerecis Limited | 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.
How this compares
$3,996 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 684 foot & ankle surgery providers in Texas.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Houston
- Kevin VarnerHouston$1.1M
- Sherman NaglerHouston$602K
- Abdul NurudeenHouston$404K
- Orlando RiveraHouston$384K
- Brian LepowHouston$309K
- Yueh LeeHouston$95K
- William GranberryHouston$84K
- Nathaniel AlabiHouston$71K
- Jorge MatukHouston$45K
- William McGarveyKaty$3.5M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.