Has Margaret Baldwin received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $23,383 in general payments to Margaret Baldwin across 199 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 Margaret Baldwin 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 Margaret Baldwin 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.

Margaret Baldwin

Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1871907121

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (52.9%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 30.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,713, 2.2 times the $3,008 reported in 2019. Among pediatric orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$23,383in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 199 payments — averaging $117.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$7K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$6K
VB Spine LLC$4K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$3K
Medtronic$2K
Johnson & Johnson$1K
plus $776 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$4502%
Travel & lodging$10,56145%
Food & beverage$12,37253%

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	73	$7,179
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	37	$5,746
VB Spine LLC	38	$4,299
Alphatec Spine, Inc	3	$2,510
Medtronic	19	$1,856
Johnson & Johnson	14	$1,016
KCI USA, Inc.	2	$257
Axogen	3	$213
Smith+Nephew	4	$89
Prosidyan, Inc	1	$82
Reel Surgical, Inc.	1	$40
Lifenet Health	1	$37
Acell, Inc.	1	$32
Chiesi USA, Inc.	1	$14
Convatec Inc.	1	$13

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

$23,383 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 82 pediatric orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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