John McElroy, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Flower Mound, TXNPI 1154619971
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 45 payments — averaging $97.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pylant Medical$1K
- Arthrex$963
- Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC$750
- Medtronic$362
- Nevro Corp.$230
- Medacta USA, Inc.$199
- plus $760 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$75017%
- Travel & lodging$1,96145%
- Food & beverage$1,66038%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pylant Medical | 5 | $1,107 |
| Arthrex | 9 | $963 |
| Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC | 1 | $750 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 10 | $362 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $230 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $199 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 1 | $141 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $122 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $73 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $62 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $44 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $33 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $30 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $29 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
How this compares
$4,371 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 207 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Texas.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 320 | $1,858 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 167 | $1,693 |
| Meloxicam | 457 | $1,287 |
| Gabapentin | 110 | $1,259 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 93 | $1,034 |
| Methylprednisolone | 91 | $606 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 44 | $457 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 56 | $456 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 103 | $352 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 39 | $178 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 35 | $170 |
| Celecoxib | 13 | $94 |
| Methocarbamol | 13 | $77 |
| Diazepam | 14 | $10 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Flower Mound
- Stephen TolhurstFlower Mound$1.1M
- Randall DryerAustin$2.9M
- Craig KuhnsAustin$2.7M
- David WimberleyHouston$2.2M
- Jeffrey PhelpsNorth Richland Hills$1.9M
- Eric WieserArlington$1.5M
- Richard GuyerPlano$1.3M
- Andrew ClavennaDallas$1.3M
- Ivan ChengKyle$1.2M
- Michael ObrienPlano$1M
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.