Joseph McNutt
Sports Medicine · Frisco, TXNPI 1730183427
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $100,000 of the $103,912 with a category attached, or 96.2%. Fuse Medical, Inc. accounts for 96.3% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $50,601 and has fallen 99.5% since, to $276 in 2025. Among sports medicine clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 104 payments — averaging $999.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Fuse Medical, Inc.$100K
- Stryker$2K
- Smith+Nephew$961
- Zimmer Biomet$432
- CPM Medical Consultants, LLC$177
- Johnson & Johnson$136
- plus $560 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$100,00096%
- Food & beverage$3,2153%
- Education$6971%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fuse Medical, Inc. | 4 | $100,022 |
| Stryker | 52 | $1,623 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $961 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 8 | $432 |
| CPM Medical Consultants, LLC | 2 | $177 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 8 | $136 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 3 | $125 |
| Pylant Medical | 2 | $87 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $70 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 5 | $62 |
| ERMI LLC | 2 | $53 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $32 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $21 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Orthogenrx Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Acufex$434
- ACUFEX Knee$263
- TAPESTRY$217
- ACCUPASS DIRECT Crescent XL$103
How this compares
$103,912 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 437 sports medicine providers in Texas.
Other sports medicine in Frisco
- 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
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.