George Liu, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Dallas, TXNPI 1841269958
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (36.8%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 29 manufacturers reported payments, led by Gramercy Extremity Orthopedics LLC at 37.5% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $8,578, 6.3 times the $1,367 reported in 2019.
Across 125 payments — averaging $242.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gramercy Extremity Orthopedics LLC$11K
- Synthes GmbH$9K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$4K
- Stryker$1K
- Restor3d, Inc.$1K
- Pylant Medical$541
- plus $2K from 23 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $14,286 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Gramercy Extremity Orthopedics LLC$100K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$11,15837%
- Consulting fees$5,15717%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,50012%
- Travel & lodging$5,25817%
- Food & beverage$3,88113%
- Education$1,3985%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gramercy Extremity Orthopedics LLC | 37 | $11,370 |
| Synthes GmbH | 18 | $9,203 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 5 | $4,231 |
| Stryker | 10 | $1,499 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 5 | $1,197 |
| Pylant Medical | 2 | $541 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $327 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $292 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $264 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $174 |
| Osteoremedies, LLC | 1 | $153 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $139 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $121 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $112 |
| Next Science LLC | 3 | $105 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $103 |
| Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Amgen | 3 | $54 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $52 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $50 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Axogen | 1 | $25 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Nvision Biomedical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Tenex Health Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 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.
- JUNIORTHO PLATING SYSTEM$4,125
- INFINITY$969
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$553
- INTEGRA$522
- TL-HEX$213
- TrueLok Ring Fixation System$213
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$184
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$184
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$174
- PRIMATRIX$174
- AXS INFINITY LS$166
- EVOS$159
- BlastX$153
- Xperience$153
- HAMMERLOCK$150
- Kerecis Omega3 Wound$143
- Baxdela$121
- DUOBRII$112
- XCaliber Articulated Ankle Fixator$106
How this compares
$30,352 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 684 foot & ankle 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 57 | $493 |
| Gabapentin | 28 | $290 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 32 | $285 |
| Methocarbamol | 42 | $192 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 11 | $148 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 22 | $147 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 20 | $122 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Dallas
- Eugene CurryDallas$3.1M
- Paul KimDallas$928K
- John EarlyDallas$553K
- Dane WukichDallas$189K
- Charles CookDallas$92K
- Trapper LalliDallas$74K
- Veerabhadra ReddyDallas$59K
- John NoackDallas$49K
- William McGarveyKaty$3.5M
- Graham HamiltonEdinburg$2.1M
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.