John Dorman, MD
Neurological Surgery · Odessa, TXNPI 1215030333
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,849 of the $12,058 with a category attached, or 65.1%. 29 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alphatec Spine, Inc at 36.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $6,166 and has fallen 81.1% since, to $1,166 in 2025.
Across 99 payments — averaging $121.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$4K
- Medtronic$3K
- Rattan And Associates$670
- Zimmer Biomet$658
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$552
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$441
- plus $3K from 23 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $2,827,129 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Circinus Medical Technology LLC$8.5M
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$911%
- Travel & lodging$4,11934%
- Food & beverage$7,84965%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 21 | $4,368 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 25 | $2,592 |
| Rattan And Associates | 3 | $670 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $658 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 2 | $552 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 5 | $441 |
| Zavation Medical Products, LLC | 2 | $297 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $285 |
| Globus Medical | 6 | $261 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $257 |
| Circinus Medical Technology LLC | 1 | $236 |
| Adcura, Inc. | 1 | $161 |
| Abbott | 1 | $151 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 2 | $133 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 2 | $115 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 1 | $104 |
| Potrero Medical, Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $100 |
| Irras USA, Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Stryker | 2 | $83 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $68 |
| Merck | 3 | $44 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 1 | $43 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $30 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $17 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 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.
- INVICTUS OPEN$1,065
- MazorX - Renaissance$799
- Other - Miscellaneous$783
- Battalion TLIF - PC$659
- Battalion PLIF - PS$646
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$561
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$552
- O-ARM$361
- Walter$340
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$314
- MULTIPLE$300
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$295
- BIOLOGICS$256
- Bolt Navigation Unit$236
- Spinal-Stim$226
- INFUSE$175
- Proclaim IPG$151
- ALPHA INFORMATIX$150
- CMF Orthognathic$149
- iFuse Implant$147
How this compares
$12,058 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 42 | $314 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 37 | $244 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Odessa
- Koijan KainthThe Woodlands$1.3M
- Luis DuarteSan Angelo$1.2M
- Douglas FoxAustin$948K
- Richard MeyratDallas$883K
- Adam LewisCorpus Christi$792K
- Arnold VardimanSan Antonio$687K
- Andrew RoeserHouston$660K
- Scott RobertsonRound Rock$606K
- Sabatino BiancoArlington$564K
- Rebecca StachniakPlano$561K
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.