Has Kelly Blevins, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,790 in general payments to Kelly Blevins, MD across 21 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 Kelly Blevins, 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 Kelly Blevins, 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.

Kelly Blevins, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · The Woodlands, TXNPI 1073506739

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,790in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 21 payments — averaging $85.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$2K
Smith+Nephew$191
Medtronic$47
Boston Scientific$22
Abiomed$16

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,790100%

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	16	$1,514
Smith+Nephew	2	$191
Medtronic	1	$47
Boston Scientific	1	$22
Abiomed	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.

How this compares

$1,790 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$215,485

Medicare patients

447

Services billed

7,790

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
Diclofenac Sodium	400	$2,030
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	133	$1,631
Celecoxib	137	$1,588
Cefdinir	108	$887
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	54	$795
Meloxicam	71	$285
Gabapentin	23	$267
Methylprednisolone	21	$101
Amoxicillin	95	$87

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in The Woodlands

Eric PriceThe Woodlands$411K
Stephen BurkhartSan Antonio$185.3M
Kirby HittTemple$9.1M
J Richard EvansonPlano$8.1M
Stefan KreuzerHouston$7M
Robert GrahamAustin$6.3M
Richard JonesDallas$6.3M
Howard HarrisBedford$4.6M
Tiffany HuynhHouston$4.6M
Michael WirthSan Antonio$4.5M

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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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