Has Jonathan Duncan, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $11,231 in general payments to Jonathan Duncan, MD across 39 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 Jonathan Duncan, 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 Jonathan Duncan, 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.

Jonathan Duncan, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · San Antonio, TXNPI 1699903765

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $8,125 of the $11,231 with a category attached, or 72.3%. Nvision Biomedical Technologies, Inc. accounts for 72.4% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $8,319 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $19 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $12,726.

$11,231in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 39 payments — averaging $287.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Nvision Biomedical Technologies, Inc.$8K
Globus Medical$1K
Medtronic$891
Stryker$657
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$123
Abbott$58
plus $136 from 5 others

$28,681in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $1792.58 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.

Abbott$29K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$8,12572%
Travel & lodging$2,37721%
Food & beverage$7296%

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
Nvision Biomedical Technologies, Inc.	3	$8,132
Globus Medical	6	$1,235
Medtronic	8	$891
Stryker	12	$657
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	1	$123
Abbott	2	$58
Si-bone, Inc.	3	$57
C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries	1	$23
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$22
Davol Inc.	1	$19
Zimmer Biomet	1	$15

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

$11,231 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 207 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$290,330

Medicare patients

572

Services billed

1,817

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	152	$1,705
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	64	$713
Celecoxib	46	$516
Tizanidine Hcl	45	$458
Methocarbamol	22	$363
Baclofen	14	$356
Diclofenac Sodium	23	$264
Meloxicam	73	$200
Pregabalin	13	$177
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	20	$168
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	21	$132
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	13	$102
Tramadol Hcl	30	$94
Methylprednisolone	17	$92
Prednisone	14	$20

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in San Antonio

M DennisSan Antonio$236K
Kevin RichardsonSan Antonio$90K
Antonio WebbSan Antonio$75K
Adam BruggemanSan Antonio$64K
Randall DryerAustin$2.9M
Craig KuhnsAustin$2.4M
David WimberleyHouston$2.2M
Jeffrey PhelpsNorth Richland Hills$1.9M
Eric WieserArlington$1.5M
Andrew ClavennaDallas$1.3M

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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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