Justin Chronister, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1073772950
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 139 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Stryker accounts for 84.3% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,544 and has fallen 79.6% since, to $518 in 2025.
Across 139 payments — averaging $66.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$8K
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$212
- Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.$179
- ERMI LLC$143
- Amgen$129
- Johnson & Johnson$82
- plus $696 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$9,188100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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(2 entities) | 81 | $7,746 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 12 | $212 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $179 |
| ERMI LLC | 6 | $143 |
| Amgen | 8 | $129 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $82 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $77 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 1 | $58 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $57 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 3 | $55 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 2 | $54 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Vertex | 1 | $26 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $21 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
| Intellijoint Surgical Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Abbott | 1 | $19 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 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.
- MAKO$4,667
- ACCOLADE$250
- Unifi Technology$179
- GAMMA$153
How this compares
$9,188 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Cefadroxil | 141 | $3,117 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 218 | $2,912 |
| Gabapentin | 229 | $2,270 |
| Meloxicam | 242 | $1,662 |
| Methylprednisolone | 194 | $1,297 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 152 | $1,199 |
| Methocarbamol | 143 | $1,092 |
| Mupirocin | 129 | $1,028 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 110 | $972 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 124 | $516 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 125 | $483 |
| Celecoxib | 19 | $445 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 95 | $322 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 33 | $297 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 25 | $137 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Houston
- Stefan KreuzerHouston$6.2M
- Stephen IncavoHouston$4.3M
- Thomas EdwardsHouston$4.1M
- Adam FreedhandHouston$1.8M
- Jeffrey KozakHouston$1.1M
- Travis HansonHouston$1M
- Thomas TanousHouston$698K
- Alan RechterHouston$605K
- Ugonna IhekweazuHouston$544K
- Darrell HansonHouston$284K
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.