Gian Steinhauser
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Bellaire, TXNPI 1083914741
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 352 payments — averaging $28.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$5K
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$3K
- Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$709
- Globus Medical$346
- Smith+Nephew$246
- Organogenesis Inc.$177
- plus $1K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$10,185100%
- Education$100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker(2 entities) | 102 | $4,705 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 118 | $2,723 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 35 | $709 |
| Globus Medical | 12 | $346 |
| Smith+Nephew | 13 | $246 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 9 | $177 |
| Nevro Corp. | 7 | $168 |
| Bioventus LLC | 7 | $135 |
| ETS Wound Care LLC | 9 | $125 |
| Merck | 10 | $123 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 4 | $107 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $96 |
| Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC | 5 | $87 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $57 |
| Amgen | 2 | $53 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $52 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $37 |
| Trilliant Surgical LLC. | 1 | $33 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $32 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $16 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $14 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- ANCHORAGE$398
- NUZYRA$351
- PROPHECY$287
- PROSTEP MICA$280
- FIXOS$171
- Actishield$156
- EASY CLIP$139
- PROLAYER$128
How this compares
$10,195 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Febuxostat | 15 | $2,973 |
| Ketoconazole | 78 | $2,209 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 58 | $1,155 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 30 | $913 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 59 | $863 |
| Pregabalin | 22 | $778 |
| Gabapentin | 57 | $583 |
| Lidocaine | 11 | $520 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 18 | $506 |
| Bupropion Hcl SrBupropion Hcl | 19 | $399 |
| Mupirocin | 47 | $330 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 35 | $324 |
| Nystatin | 24 | $299 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 38 | $285 |
| Carisoprodol | 11 | $274 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Bellaire
- Michael GreaserBellaire$88K
- Richard PollakSan Antonio$6.1M
- Joseph CaporussoMcAllen$6M
- Mark DaltonAustin$4.1M
- William McGarveyKaty$3.5M
- Eugene CurryDallas$3.1M
- Chad HowzeSan Antonio$2.4M
- Graham HamiltonEdinburg$2.1M
- Kevin VarnerHouston$1.1M
- Paul KimDallas$972K
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.