John McDonald, MD
Sports Medicine · Austin, TXNPI 1780896241
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $417,642 of the $498,699 with a category attached, or 83.7%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 99.2% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among sports medicine 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.
Across 104 payments — averaging $4795.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$495K
- Medinc Of Texas$2K
- Stryker$1K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$653
- Johnson & Johnson$22
- Core Surgical Group$14
- plus $11 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$417,64284%
- Consulting fees$46,3699%
- Speaking & faculty fees$26,9885%
- Travel & lodging$3,2311%
- Food & beverage$2,0890%
- Education$2,3820%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 85 | $494,608 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 2 | $2,382 |
| Stryker | 9 | $1,010 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 5 | $653 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $22 |
| Core Surgical Group | 1 | $14 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Biceptor$208,387
- Coblation$110,696
- SPATIAL FRAME$13,131
- FAST-FIX$12,185
- Q-FIX$10,836
- CAP-FIX$10,500
- BIORAPTOR$9,750
- Healicoil$7,554
- AMBIENT HIPVAC$7,375
- Elite Hip Instruments$7,375
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$7,219
- NOVOCUT$5,913
- MICRORAPTOR Knotless Anchor$3,875
- MICRORAPTOR Suture Anchor$3,875
- Biosure$3,250
- Accu-pass$3,250
- ACCUPASS DIRECT Crescent XL$2,250
- Bioraptor Knotless$2,250
- BIORAPTOR Shoulder$2,250
- BIORAPTOR Hip$2,250
How this compares
$498,699 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 437 sports medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Naproxen | 23 | $180 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 18 | $144 |
| Meloxicam | 36 | $72 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 17 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Austin
- Douglas ElenzAustin$129K
- Darryl ThomasAustin$37K
- James WalkerAustin$31K
- Thomas DeberardinoSan Antonio$3.5M
- Robert ScheinbergDallas$2.2M
- Walter LoweHouston$1.4M
- Reed BartzSunnyvale$1.2M
- James GregoryHouston$565K
- James McKinleyTyler$305K
- Kelechi OkorohaDallas$297K
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.