Has John Masciale, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $825,337 in general payments to John Masciale, MD across 209 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean John Masciale, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about John Masciale, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

John Masciale, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Corpus Christi, TXNPI 1912919119

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $817,955 of the $825,337 with a category attached, or 99.1%. IKON Spine LLC accounts for 97.2% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$825,337in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 209 payments — averaging $3948.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

IKON Spine LLC$802K
Spinal Elements, Inc.$10K
Amendia, Inc.$8K
Boston Scientific$3K
Abbott$980
Stryker$978
plus $827 from 10 others

$4,791in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $399.22 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Spinal Elements, Inc.$5K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$817,95599%
Travel & lodging$2,2090%
Food & beverage$5,1221%
Other$510%

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
IKON Spine LLC	19	$801,901
Spinal Elements, Inc.	21	$9,787
Amendia, Inc.	12	$8,168
Boston Scientific	39	$2,696
Abbott	84	$980
Stryker	7	$978
Vertex	7	$330
Baxter Healthcare	5	$134
Amgen	7	$91
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	1	$75
Medtronic	2	$53
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	1	$46
Welch Allyn	1	$33
Johnson & Johnson	1	$27
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$20
Urgo Medical North America, LLC	1	$17

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.

Cervical Fusion Devices$240,249
Cervical Fusion Devices and Related Instrumentation$120,613
IS-PSS$120,444
Interbody Fusion Devices and Instrumentation$120,000
Cervical Devices and Instrumentation$120,000
Pedicle Screw System and Related Instrumentation$80,000
Medical Device$8,168
OTCC$3,648
Piranha$3,046
Piranha Cervical Plate- OTCC$1,382
OTCS$1,241
IVS - VERTEBRAL AUGMENTATION PRODUCTS$488
WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$409
Interbody Fusion Devices$299
mild Device Kit$281
JOURNAVX$267
TCS - Cervical Screws$252
IVS - IVAS$144
Cervical Fusion Device$133
Cervical Devices and Related Instrumentation$130

How this compares

$825,337 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$215,838

Medicare patients

262

Services billed

1,471

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	618	$13,313
Buprenorphine	28	$8,351
Gabapentin	549	$5,279
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	244	$4,941
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	417	$3,040
Tramadol Hcl	318	$1,604
Doxycycline Hyclate	89	$1,236
Celecoxib	113	$1,130
Methylprednisolone	120	$1,065
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	16	$754
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	26	$703
Pregabalin	47	$701
Tizanidine Hcl	62	$679
Methocarbamol	46	$666
Hydromorphone Hcl	14	$631

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Corpus Christi

Stephen BurkhartSan Antonio$185.3M
Kirby HittTemple$9.1M
Robert GrahamAustin$6.3M
Richard JonesDallas$6.3M
Stefan KreuzerHouston$6.2M
Michael WirthSan Antonio$4.5M
Stephen IncavoHouston$4.3M
Thomas EdwardsHouston$4.1M
James BrodskyDallas$2.5M
Robert SchmidtFort Worth$2M

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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.

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