Mark Adickes
Sports Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1770673428
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $27,500 of the $34,746 with a category attached, or 79.1%. Arthrex accounts for 86.8% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $28,218 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $42 in 2025.
Across 91 payments — averaging $381.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$30K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- Amgen$224
- Stryker$203
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$125
- plus $415 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5001%
- Speaking & faculty fees$27,50079%
- Travel & lodging$5,21815%
- Food & beverage$1,5284%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 27 | $30,144 |
| Smith+Nephew | 10 | $1,950 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 16 | $1,684 |
| Amgen | 15 | $224 |
| Stryker | 5 | $203 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 3 | $119 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $66 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $46 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $33 |
| Vertex | 1 | $28 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $27 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $14 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- CORI$1,235
- Journey II$1,108
- Oxford$621
- HIP6 Software$613
- ROSA-Knee$455
- Persona$235
How this compares
$34,746 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 437 sports medicine providers in Texas.
Other sports medicine in Houston
- Walter LoweHouston$1.4M
- James GregoryHouston$565K
- Robert FullickHouston$137K
- Patrick McCullochHouston$136K
- Joshua HarrisHouston$109K
- Mufaddal GomberaHouston$33K
- Robert FlanneryHouston$27K
- David BrownHouston$27K
- Ankur MehtaHouston$26K
- Thomas DeberardinoSan Antonio$3.5M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.