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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $37,873 in general payments to John Robinson, MD across 103 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 Robinson, 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 Robinson, 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 Robinson, MD

Sports Medicine · San Marcos, TXNPI 1063943025

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — grants (52.8%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Arthrex accounts for 63.4% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $30,203 and has fallen 97.4% since, to $793 in 2025. Among sports medicine clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$37,873in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 103 payments — averaging $367.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$24K
Smith+Nephew$5K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$4K
Stryker$2K
Pylant Medical$1K
Core Surgical Group$942
plus $156 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$1430%
Grants$20,00053%
Travel & lodging$7,97621%
Food & beverage$3,3549%
Education$6,40017%

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	45	$24,010
Smith+Nephew	4	$5,411
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	16	$4,083
Stryker	23	$2,062
Pylant Medical	2	$1,209
Core Surgical Group	10	$942
Evolution Surgical, Inc	1	$103
Johnson & Johnson	2	$53

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.

DYNACORD$3,397
MAKO$1,270
INHANCE$395
GAMMA$321
AUGMENT INJECTABLE$164
AXSOS$164
VARIAX$164
HOFFMANN$164
Q-FIX$143

How this compares

$37,873 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 437 sports medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$108,504

Medicare patients

282

Services billed

1,536

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
Celecoxib	37	$477
Oxycodone Hcl	12	$135
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	11	$104
Ondansetron Hcl	18	$35

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other sports medicine in San Marcos

Thomas DeberardinoSan Antonio$3.5M
Robert ScheinbergDallas$2.2M
Walter LoweHouston$1.4M
Reed BartzSunnyvale$1.2M
James GregoryHouston$565K
John McDonaldAustin$499K
James McKinleyTyler$305K
Kelechi OkorohaDallas$297K
Leon PaulosPearland$289K
Marc LabbeThe Woodlands$238K

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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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