John Williams, MD
Neurological Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1336536200
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 36 payments — averaging $160.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$4K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$947
- Stryker$316
- Medtronic$218
- Johnson & Johnson$143
- Si-bone, Inc.$108
- plus $50 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,01869%
- Food & beverage$1,76931%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 21 | $4,006 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $947 |
| Stryker | 2 | $316 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $218 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $143 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $108 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $14 |
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.
- RISE$1,781
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$1,051
- Velys$685
- CALIBER$197
- Sable$162
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$161
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$155
- Excelsius3D Imaging System$133
- Spine & Trauma 3D Navigation$119
- Teligen$119
- Excelsius Deformity$101
How this compares
$5,788 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 582 neurological surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 19 | $274 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Houston
- Daniel CurryHouston$3M
- Homero AnchondoHouston$799K
- Claudio TatsuiHouston$777K
- Arthur DayHouston$746K
- Andrew RoeserHouston$660K
- Peng ChenHouston$550K
- Daniel YoshorHouston$519K
- Paul HolmanHouston$516K
- Nitin TandonHouston$510K
- Nelson MossHouston$501K
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.