Gerhard Maale, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Plano, TXNPI 1689677940
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 251 payments — averaging $4214.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$759K
- Linkbio Corp$127K
- Biocomposites Inc$113K
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$36K
- Onkos Surgical, Inc.$14K
- Bone Support Inc.$4K
- plus $5K from 31 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $30,000 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.
- Linkbio Corp$50K
- Onkos Surgical, Inc.$10K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$812,65883%
- Consulting fees$98,12510%
- Speaking & faculty fees$25,0003%
- Travel & lodging$34,7044%
- Food & beverage$12,4461%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 35 | $758,911 |
| Linkbio Corp | 19 | $127,241 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 22 | $112,847 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 24 | $35,962 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 49 | $14,291 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 20 | $3,768 |
| Stryker | 13 | $1,200 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 8 | $543 |
| Next Science LLC | 7 | $510 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 7 | $432 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $290 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $236 |
| Davol Inc. | 7 | $230 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $200 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $200 |
| Merck | 4 | $163 |
| Maxx Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $102 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 1 | $85 |
| Resmed Corp | 2 | $78 |
| G21 SRL | 1 | $75 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 3 | $74 |
| Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| Carbofix Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $49 |
| Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Epizyme, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $23 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $15 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $14 |
| Acell, Inc. | 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.
- Legion Hinge$658,910
- Legion$99,533
- Stimulan Rapid Cure$60,000
- Stimulan$52,000
- ELEOS LIMB SALVAGE SYSTEM$13,844
- Turalio$10,307
- CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$3,257
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$814
- TRIATHLON$635
- SurgX$449
- Xperience$449
- BlastX$449
- INTEGRA$419
- Restrata Wound Matrix$389
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$271
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$271
- CellerateRx$200
- ENDURO AS$142
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$140
- PRIMATRIX$140
How this compares
$1,057,933 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic 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 | 210 | $2,863 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 33 | $428 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 42 | $251 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 36 | $240 |
| Gabapentin | 20 | $149 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 17 | $86 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Plano
- J Richard EvansonPlano$8.1M
- Isador LiebermanPlano$1.3M
- Jack ZiglerPlano$1.2M
- Michael SchwartzPlano$993K
- Cyrus AbbaschianPlano$749K
- Khalid YousufPlano$485K
- Stephen BurkhartSan Antonio$185.3M
- Kirby HittTemple$9.1M
- Stefan KreuzerHouston$7M
- Robert GrahamAustin$6.3M
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.