John Munz, MD
Orthopaedic Trauma · Houston, TXNPI 1144488255
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,214 payments — averaging $828.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$877K
- Smith+Nephew$53K
- Synthes GmbH$36K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$23K
- Medinc Of Texas$8K
- Stryker$3K
- plus $6K from 26 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $6587.50 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.
- Arthrex$13K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$222,81322%
- Speaking & faculty fees$645,63364%
- Travel & lodging$105,44710%
- Food & beverage$29,4533%
- Education$2,7810%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 807 | $877,097 |
| Smith+Nephew | 55 | $53,105 |
| Synthes GmbH | 41 | $35,726 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 34 | $22,723 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 121 | $8,408 |
| Stryker | 71 | $3,262 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 37 | $1,682 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $800 |
| Pylant Medical | 6 | $721 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 8 | $499 |
| Suvon Surgical LLC | 2 | $339 |
| Team 1, LLC | 3 | $174 |
| Eclipse Technology Solutions Inc. | 2 | $162 |
| Medwest Associates | 3 | $156 |
| Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC | 2 | $148 |
| Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Steelhead Surgical Inc | 2 | $134 |
| Titan Surgical Group, LLC | 1 | $110 |
| Next Science LLC | 2 | $100 |
| Conetic Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Core Surgical Group | 1 | $81 |
| Axogen | 1 | $73 |
| Summit Surgical Corp. | 1 | $66 |
| Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC | 1 | $64 |
| Reel Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $51 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $35 |
| Pinnacle, Inc | 1 | $32 |
| Blue Surgical LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Wound Management Technologies, Inc | 1 | $21 |
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.
- ARTHREX$32,722
- EVOS$32,613
- CANNULATED SCREWS$24,804
- Peri-Loc$24,420
- META TAN$23,842
- EXPAREL$19,925
- Conquest FN$18,448
- Jet-X$16,198
- TRIGEN$11,110
- TRIGEN Femoral (FAN/TAN/Meta Nail)$10,699
- EVOS MINI$9,844
- Peri-Loc VLP$7,875
- Peri-Loc PFP$7,359
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS TRAUMA MINI FRAGMENT$4,981
- Taylor Spatial Frame$2,806
- EXTREMITIES & TRAUMA IMPLANTS LONG BONE TRAUMA TROCHANTERIC FRACTURE$2,000
- EXTREMITIES & TRAUMA IMPLANTS LONG BONE TRAUMA TIBIAL FRACTURE$2,000
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS TRAUMA ANKLE FRACTURE$1,800
- JET-X Mini$812
- PREVENA$800
How this compares
$1,006,128 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 74 orthopaedic trauma 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 | 21 | $181 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 19 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic trauma in Houston
- Kyle DicksonHouston$975K
- Timothy AchorHouston$561K
- Jonathan EastmanHouston$361K
- Stephen WarnerHouston$357K
- Milton L RouttHouston$266K
- Andrew ChooHouston$262K
- James KellamHouston$94K
- Patrick KellamHouston$55K
- Doan NguyenHouston$7K
- Cory CollingeFort Worth$2.8M
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.