John Baca
Podiatrist · Plano, TXNPI 1487919288
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 143 payments — averaging $63.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Medline Industries LP$2K
- Pylant Medical$770
- Arthrex$321
- Bone Support Inc.$230
- plus $1K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,82020%
- Travel & lodging$2,85031%
- Food & beverage$3,95044%
- Education$4295%
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 | 35 | $2,599 |
| Smith+Nephew | 18 | $2,116 |
| Medline Industries LP | 9 | $1,871 |
| Pylant Medical | 7 | $770 |
| Arthrex | 13 | $321 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 4 | $230 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $174 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $120 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 5 | $112 |
| Abbott | 4 | $111 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $101 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 4 | $62 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 4 | $45 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $34 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $34 |
| Sebela Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Vilex LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $23 |
| Maxx Health Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Carbofix Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $14 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $13 |
| 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.
- VERSAJET II$1,820
- VARIAX$1,092
- ANCHORAGE$579
- SONICANCHOR$418
- SMART TOE$418
- Viaflow$163
- CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$144
How this compares
$9,049 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 470 podiatrist 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 162 | $1,367 |
| Mupirocin | 44 | $271 |
| Pregabalin | 19 | $217 |
| Methylprednisolone | 22 | $190 |
| CiclopiroxCiclopirox Olamine | 12 | $189 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 19 | $141 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 15 | $100 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 14 | $32 |
| Meloxicam | 14 | $27 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatrist in Plano
- Aamir AhmedPlano$24K
- Nickil NayeePlano$13K
- Brian CarpenterFort Worth$1.2M
- Gary LepowHouston$1M
- Travis MotleyFort Worth$888K
- Wayne HurstCedar Park$625K
- Calvin RushingSunnyvale$462K
- Lena LevineFort Worth$298K
- Robert TaylorFrisco$280K
- Alan GarrettFort Worth$236K
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.