Eeric Truumees, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Austin, TXNPI 1356322630
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $14,960 of the $20,405 with a category attached, or 73.3%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Amgen at 41.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $12,833 and has fallen 63.7% since, to $4,658 in 2025.
Across 68 payments — averaging $300.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$8K
- Stryker$7K
- VB Spine LLC$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$740
- Medtronic$482
- Ossur Americas, Inc.$319
- plus $772 from 5 others
Across 121 payments — averaging $2928.42 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$186K
- Medtronic$50K
- Stryker$43K
- Seikagaku Corporation$32K
- Pfizer$20K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$19K
- plus $5K from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$14,96073%
- Travel & lodging$3,46917%
- Food & beverage$1,97610%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 10 | $8,406 |
| Stryker | 19 | $7,315 |
| VB Spine LLC | 2 | $2,372 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $740 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $482 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 22 | $319 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 5 | $284 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $193 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $172 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 2 | $103 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
- EVENITY$8,269
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$2,466
- ASCENTIAL ACP 1$2,250
- ES2 SPINAL SYSTEM$2,250
- ALLOGRAFT$1,500
- INFUSE BONE GRAFT$342
- Intracept$316
- aprevo$193
- CREO$172
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$146
- ALEUTIAN CERVICAL$146
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$146
- AVIATOR$146
- ALEUTIAN INTERBODY SYSTEMS$146
- XIA 3$122
How this compares
$20,405 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 207 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Texas.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 64 | $552 |
| Mupirocin | 60 | $444 |
| Methocarbamol | 39 | $404 |
| Gabapentin | 24 | $140 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Austin
- Randall DryerAustin$2.9M
- Craig KuhnsAustin$2.4M
- Richard WuppermanAustin$808K
- Matthew GeckAustin$87K
- Jason ToyAustin$73K
- David WimberleyHouston$2.2M
- Jeffrey PhelpsNorth Richland Hills$1.9M
- Eric WieserArlington$1.5M
- Andrew ClavennaDallas$1.3M
- Ivan ChengKyle$1.2M
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.