Jason Balette, MD
Surgery · Spring, TXNPI 1295762847
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 36.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,665 and has fallen 89.4% since, to $282 in 2025.
Across 90 payments — averaging $71.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Stryker$1K
- Medtronic$494
- Baxter Healthcare$455
- AbbVie$117
- plus $454 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,68342%
- Food & beverage$3,74958%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 13 | $2,323 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 25 | $1,394 |
| Stryker | 5 | $1,195 |
| Medtronic | 11 | $494 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 9 | $455 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $117 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $90 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 6 | $72 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| Vertex | 2 | $47 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 1 | $34 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $22 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $16 |
| Standard Bariatrics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- 1588 HD 3 CHIP CAMERA$591
- LINX Reflux Management System$542
- 1688$278
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$269
- PERI-STRIPS DRY$189
- AIM LAPARASCOPES$164
- SPY TECHNOLOGY$162
- 1688 HD 3 CHIP CAMERA$162
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$119
- Echelon Flex$115
- Harmonic$115
How this compares
$6,432 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,830 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Enoxaparin Sodium | 16 | $1,403 |
| Famotidine | 53 | $834 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 59 | $444 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 31 | $300 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 26 | $75 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 16 | $61 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 15 | $39 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Spring
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
- Steven FassAustin$989K
- Vineet ChoudhryAustin$851K
- Andy HawthorneRound Rock$843K
- Nancy MarquezAustin$700K
- Sachin KukrejaDallas$640K
- Alejandro EsquivelAustin$631K
- Erik WilsonBellaire$610K
- Folahan AyoolaDenton$570K
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.