Mark Burnett, MD
Neurological Surgery · Austin, TXNPI 1932195427
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $3,266 of the $4,051 with a category attached, or 80.6%. Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 88.9% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,619 and has fallen 99.0% since, to $37 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for neurological surgery clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $3,746.
Across 19 payments — averaging $213.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$4K
- Boston Scientific$219
- Abbott$193
- Medtronic$37
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,26681%
- Food & beverage$78519%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 8 | $3,602 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $219 |
| Abbott | 4 | $193 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $37 |
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.
- Other - Miscellaneous$3,241
- INVICTUS OPEN$295
How this compares
$4,051 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 64 | $766 |
| Methocarbamol | 89 | $658 |
| Baclofen | 15 | $622 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 65 | $620 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 81 | $512 |
| Gabapentin | 49 | $336 |
| Prednisone | 57 | $263 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 42 | $113 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Austin
- Douglas FoxAustin$948K
- John StokesAustin$522K
- Daniel PetersonAustin$442K
- Thomas LoftusAustin$379K
- Jon WillieAustin$137K
- Koijan KainthThe Woodlands$1.3M
- Luis DuarteSan Angelo$1.2M
- Richard MeyratDallas$883K
- Adam LewisCorpus Christi$792K
- Arnold VardimanSan Antonio$687K
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.