Douglas Elenz, MD
Sports Medicine · Austin, TXNPI 1205806171
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $124,234 of the $128,665 with a category attached, or 96.6%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 98.7% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among sports medicine 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 68 payments — averaging $1892.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$127K
- Medinc Of Texas$610
- Stryker$231
- Johnson & Johnson$108
- Smith+Nephew$89
- Si-bone, Inc.$73
- plus $524 from 17 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $26,397 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.$185K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$124,23497%
- Consulting fees$2,7502%
- Food & beverage$1,0711%
- Education$6100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 21 | $127,030 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 1 | $610 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 5 | $231 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $108 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $89 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $73 |
| Abbott | 3 | $68 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $65 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Vericel Corporation | 2 | $45 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $38 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $35 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Orthogenrx Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 6 | $16 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $14 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- A.L.P.S.$124,234
- Alps Plates and Instruments$2,750
- COLLAGEN MENISCAL IMPLANT$100
How this compares
$128,665 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 437 sports medicine 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 23 | $397 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Austin
- John McDonaldAustin$499K
- Darryl ThomasAustin$37K
- James WalkerAustin$31K
- Thomas DeberardinoSan Antonio$3.5M
- Robert ScheinbergDallas$2.2M
- Walter LoweHouston$1.4M
- Reed BartzSunnyvale$1.2M
- James GregoryHouston$565K
- James McKinleyTyler$305K
- Kelechi OkorohaDallas$297K
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.