Gregory van Blarcum, MD
Sports Medicine · Denison, TXNPI 1073834487
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (44.3%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 33.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $4,549 and has fallen 80.1% since, to $906 in 2025.
Across 117 payments — averaging $100.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$4K
- Arthrex$2K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Pylant Medical$2K
- Team 1, LLC$871
- Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.$287
- plus $684 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,09335%
- Food & beverage$5,21144%
- Education$2,46321%
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 | 59 | $3,885 |
| Arthrex | 19 | $2,168 |
| Smith+Nephew | 15 | $2,073 |
| Pylant Medical | 6 | $1,797 |
| Team 1, LLC | 1 | $871 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 2 | $287 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $199 |
| Medtronic | 8 | $175 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $159 |
| Vericel Corporation | 2 | $120 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $31 |
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.
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$1,625
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$1,377
- MICRORAPTOR$1,333
- Q-FIX$1,228
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$358
- MAKO$271
- TRIATHLON$145
- TRIGEN InterTAN$141
- MAVERICK$141
- Stimrouter Implantable Kit$133
- GAMMA$126
- PANGEA$123
- HOFFMANN$106
- Healicoil$105
- MACI$100
How this compares
$11,767 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 16 | $124 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Denison
- Thomas DeberardinoSan Antonio$3.5M
- Robert ScheinbergDallas$2.2M
- Walter LoweHouston$1.4M
- Reed BartzSunnyvale$1.2M
- James GregoryHouston$565K
- John McDonaldAustin$499K
- James McKinleyTyler$305K
- Kelechi OkorohaDallas$297K
- Leon PaulosPearland$289K
- Marc LabbeThe Woodlands$238K
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.