Joaquin Camara, MD
Neurological Surgery · Austin, TXNPI 1760778443
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $31,644 of the $44,577 with a category attached, or 71.0%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 40.7% of the total.
Across 776 payments — averaging $57.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$18K
- Globus Medical$13K
- Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C.$4K
- Brainlab, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$1K
- plus $4K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,89511%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,0002%
- Travel & lodging$7,03716%
- Food & beverage$31,64471%
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 | 403 | $18,135 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 281 | $13,273 |
| Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C. | 2 | $3,560 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 4 | $2,002 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 33 | $1,983 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 2 | $1,437 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 16 | $1,235 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 5 | $487 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 3 | $392 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $388 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 4 | $355 |
| Spineology Inc. | 4 | $282 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $242 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 3 | $223 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 1 | $163 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $149 |
| Captiva Spine Inc | 2 | $104 |
| Elevation Spine, Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Medicrea USA, Corp. | 1 | $25 |
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.
- Image Guided Surgical Device$2,002
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,788
- Excelsius Robotics System$1,226
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$1,108
- Traverse$974
- Retrieve$860
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$852
- aprevo$802
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$497
- ELSA$416
- ELSA ATP$416
- ELSA, ELSA AL/ATP$416
- Excelsius - GPS$328
- UNID_PASS$314
- Scarlet AL-T$267
- BIO4$257
- EVEREST$251
- MagnetOs$247
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$179
- TRITANIUM$175
How this compares
$44,577 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 582 neurological 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dexamethasone | 28 | $226 |
| Methocarbamol | 31 | $224 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 26 | $188 |
| Baclofen | 12 | $63 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Austin
- Douglas FoxAustin$948K
- John StokesAustin$522K
- Daniel PetersonAustin$442K
- Thomas LoftusAustin$379K
- Jon WillieAustin$137K
- Koijan KainthThe Woodlands$1.3M
- Luis DuarteSan Angelo$1.2M
- Richard MeyratDallas$883K
- Adam LewisCorpus Christi$792K
- Arnold VardimanSan Antonio$687K
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.