Has Luis Duarte, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,234,762 in general payments to Luis Duarte, MD across 242 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 Luis Duarte, 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 Luis Duarte, 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.

Luis Duarte, MD

Neurological Surgery · San Angelo, TXNPI 1700867348

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,234,762in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 242 payments — averaging $5102.32 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 $39K from 37 others

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.

Company	Payments	Total
Hyhte Holdings Inc.	13	$586,047
Republic Spine	50	$356,857
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	23	$153,992
The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education	18	$43,181
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	11	$40,854
Spinal Elements, Inc.	11	$14,506
Amendia, Inc.	4	$11,705
Ulrich Medical USA, Inc.	8	$10,446
Abbott	32	$4,190
Surgentec	1	$2,500
Globus Medical	3	$2,039
Joimax, Inc.	1	$2,000
Intelivation Technologies, LLC	3	$1,750
Camber Spine Technologies LLC	6	$1,699
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	9	$1,151
Stryker	6	$372
Meticuly Inc.	5	$227
Si-bone, Inc.	7	$164
Nevro Corp.	2	$144
Intrinsic Therapeutics	2	$93
Johnson & Johnson	2	$76
Xtant Medical Inc	1	$74
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	1	$73
Spine Wave, Inc.	1	$66
Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC	1	$56
Averitas Pharma Inc.	2	$52
Pylant Medical	1	$52
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	2	$52
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$43
Medicrea USA, Corp.	1	$41
Olympus America Inc.	1	$27
7d Surgical ULC	1	$27
Vertex	1	$27
Osteomed LLC	1	$27
Medtronic	1	$26
AbbVie	1	$20
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$20
Viiv Healthcare Company	1	$19
Mimedx Group, Inc.	1	$19
Aesculap, Inc.	1	$15
Centinel Spine, LLC	1	$14
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	1	$13
Ceribell, Inc.	1	$11

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

$1,234,762 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 582 neurological surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$930,937

Medicare patients

598

Services billed

22,664

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

John DormanOdessa$8.5M
Daniel PetersonAustin$5.8M
Daniel CurryHouston$3M
Peter KanGalveston$1.8M
Mirza BaigShenandoah$1.6M
Koijan KainthThe Woodlands$1.3M
Douglas FoxAustin$948K
Richard MeyratDallas$883K
Adam LewisCorpus Christi$851K
Homero AnchondoHouston$799K

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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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