John Houten, MD
Neurological Surgery · Boca Raton, FLNPI 1891899217
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,030 of the $3,246 with a category attached, or 62.5%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 53.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,199 and has fallen 89.8% since, to $223 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for neurological surgery clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $5,245.
Across 47 payments — averaging $69.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$2K
- Medtronic$905
- Stryker$137
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$97
- Johnson & Johnson$71
- DJO, LLC$64
- plus $227 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,03063%
- Food & beverage$1,21637%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 12 | $1,746 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 15 | $905 |
| Stryker | 3 | $137 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 5 | $97 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $71 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $64 |
| UCB, Inc. | 2 | $53 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $32 |
| GT Medical Technologies, Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $17 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Excelsius Robotics System$1,338
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$393
- ExcelsiusGPS$128
How this compares
$3,246 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 556 neurological surgery providers in Florida.
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.
Other neurological surgery in Boca Raton
- Brian SnellingBoca Raton$10M
- Timothy OconnorBoca Raton$156K
- Stephen ParkerJacksonville$18.7M
- Eric PetersonMiami$10.1M
- Kim ManwaringOrlando$5M
- Paul SawinWinter Park$3M
- John MainOcala$2.8M
- Michael WangMiami$2.2M
- Andrew CannestraJacksonville$1.6M
- Rohit VasanTampa$1.5M
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.