Luis Duarte, MD
Neurological Surgery · San Angelo, TXNPI 1700867348
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $979,145 of the $1,231,516 with a category attached, or 79.5%. 43 manufacturers reported payments, led by Hyhte Holdings Inc. at 47.6% of the total. Among neurological surgery 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 234 payments — averaging $5262.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Hyhte Holdings Inc.$586K
- Republic Spine$357K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$154K
- The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education$43K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$41K
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$15K
- plus $36K from 37 others
Across 8 payments — averaging $405.73 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$3K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$979,14580%
- Consulting fees$244,04420%
- Travel & lodging$3,4230%
- Food & beverage$4,8300%
- Education$270%
- Entertainment$470%
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.
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.
- Olympic MIS, El Capitan$197,535
- Olympic MIS, El Capitan, El Capitan O$180,509
- CONCORDE$153,992
- Olympic MIS$138,085
- Restore Interbody Fusion System$99,000
- Interbody Fusion System Improvements$99,000
- Nebula Expandable$66,000
- Restore Line Extension$57,750
- STREAMLINE MIS SPINAL FIXATION SYSTEM$40,761
- OLIF Lumbar Interbody System$33,000
- Spira$20,089
- SAVTHT$19,023
- Spira-O$7,815
- Alcantara$4,201
- SAVCHT$4,015
- Savannah-T High Top Screw$3,096
- ION$2,500
- Excelsius - GPS$2,020
- Golden Isles Pedicle Screw System$1,750
- N/A$122
How this compares
$1,231,516 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 582 neurological 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 103 | $1,248 |
| Oxcarbazepine | 16 | $779 |
| Cefdinir | 53 | $176 |
| Dexamethasone | 19 | $84 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 11 | $53 |
| Meloxicam | 11 | $23 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 13 | $18 |
| Diazepam | 15 | $10 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in San Angelo
- Koijan KainthThe Woodlands$1.3M
- Douglas FoxAustin$948K
- Richard MeyratDallas$883K
- Adam LewisCorpus Christi$792K
- Arnold VardimanSan Antonio$687K
- Andrew RoeserHouston$660K
- Scott RobertsonRound Rock$606K
- Sabatino BiancoArlington$564K
- Rebecca StachniakPlano$561K
- John StokesAustin$522K
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.