John Early, MD
Foot and Ankle Surgery · Dallas, TXNPI 1689683674
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 300 payments — averaging $1907.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medartis Inc.$170K
- Nextremity Solutions Inc.$111K
- Zimmer Biomet$52K
- International Life Sciences$46K
- Osteomed LLC$42K
- Extremity Medical$30K
- plus $122K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$372,82967%
- Consulting fees$130,73224%
- Speaking & faculty fees$23,5504%
- Travel & lodging$13,0402%
- Food & beverage$12,6672%
- Education$3920%
- Gifts$60%
- Entertainment$350%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medartis Inc. | 16 | $170,293 |
| Nextremity Solutions Inc. | 5 | $111,186 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 29 | $51,616 |
| International Life Sciences | 15 | $45,615 |
| Osteomed LLC | 20 | $41,768 |
| Extremity Medical | 23 | $30,160 |
| Acumed LLC | 16 | $26,094 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 50 | $23,709 |
| Vilex LLC | 19 | $16,764 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 20 | $15,830 |
| Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC | 16 | $14,275 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 11 | $11,067 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 11 | $8,443 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $2,593 |
| Pylant Medical | 3 | $525 |
| Ossio Inc | 1 | $464 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 3 | $429 |
| Medline Industries LP | 3 | $177 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $153 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $152 |
| Medshape, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $140 |
| Wound Management Technologies, Inc | 2 | $95 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $82 |
| Trilliant Surgical LLC. | 1 | $62 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Amgen | 3 | $50 |
| Ortho Solutions Inc | 1 | $38 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Ossdsign USA Incorporated | 1 | $33 |
| Axogen | 1 | $25 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $25 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $15 |
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.
- APTUS$170,240
- EXT-ExtremiLock Ankle$36,518
- FLEXBAND$35,385
- Alps Prox Tib Plates$26,641
- Calcaneal Cuboid Disk$14,711
- OsteoMed$13,850
- OMNI$13,750
- Ankle Plating System$8,750
- MagnetOs$8,281
- A.L.P.S.$7,911
- OPTECURE$7,458
- VANTAGE$6,815
- LINVATEC BURS AND BLADES$6,800
- Fibula Rod System$6,500
- EXT-Extremilock Foot$6,184
- Medical Implant$5,691
- Titanex$4,875
- HINTERMANN$4,833
- AlignX$4,500
- DYNEX$4,333
How this compares
$572,228 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 684 foot and ankle 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 51 | $473 |
| Meloxicam | 55 | $332 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 32 | $82 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot and ankle surgery in Dallas
- Eugene CurryDallas$3.1M
- Paul KimDallas$972K
- John NoackDallas$389K
- Dane WukichDallas$273K
- Charles CookDallas$192K
- George LiuDallas$130K
- Trapper LalliDallas$92K
- Veerabhadra ReddyDallas$59K
- Richard PollakSan Antonio$6.1M
- Joseph CaporussoMcAllen$6M
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.