Justin Bird, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1528230406
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 99 payments — averaging $367.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$27K
- Icotec Medical Inc.$5K
- Zimmer Biomet$855
- Brainlab, Inc.$807
- Illuminoss Medical, Inc.$311
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$290
- plus $1K from 12 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $2000.00 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.
- GT Medical Technologies, Inc$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$23,50065%
- Travel & lodging$8,53223%
- Food & beverage$4,32312%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 51 | $27,328 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 5 | $5,379 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 11 | $855 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 7 | $807 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 5 | $311 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $290 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 3 | $277 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $163 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $159 |
| Prodigy Surgical Distribution, Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $140 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $130 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $123 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $61 |
| Carbofix Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $44 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
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.
- N/A$7,500
- icotec Medical BlackArmor Spine Oncology System$5,182
- MAKO$2,082
- GMRS$1,466
- TRIATHLON$1,397
- Persona$709
- Brainlab, Inc.$573
- Restrata Wound Matrix$290
- CHROMOPHARE F300$253
- Da Vinci Surgical System$231
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$213
- Vader Pedicle System$153
- Photodynamic Bone Stabilization Procedure Pack$150
- CellerateRx$146
- MESA$140
- CAPRI$140
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$130
- DSUVIA$107
- Image Guided Surgical Device$106
How this compares
$36,355 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic 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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Houston
- Stefan KreuzerHouston$7M
- Tiffany HuynhHouston$4.6M
- Stephen IncavoHouston$4.3M
- Thomas EdwardsHouston$4.3M
- Adam FreedhandHouston$1.8M
- Jeffrey KozakHouston$1.1M
- Travis HansonHouston$1M
- David VanderweideHouston$741K
- Thomas TanousHouston$698K
- Alan RechterHouston$605K
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.