Has Mark Santman, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,884 in general payments to Mark Santman, MD across 46 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 Mark Santman, 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 Mark Santman, 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.

Mark Santman, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Round Rock, TXNPI 1598760720

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,884in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 46 payments — averaging $62.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$2K
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$481
Globus Medical$140
Medtronic$125
Core Surgical Group$23
Omnilife Science, Inc$0

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$96934%
Food & beverage$1,91566%

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	32	$2,115
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	7	$481
Globus Medical	4	$140
Medtronic	1	$125
Core Surgical Group	1	$23
Omnilife Science, Inc	1	$0

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

$2,884 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 207 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$124,020

Medicare patients

229

Services billed

455

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	52	$427
Oxycodone Hcl	43	$222
Gabapentin	22	$127
Meloxicam	18	$49

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Round Rock

Randall DryerAustin$2.9M
Craig KuhnsAustin$2.7M
David WimberleyHouston$2.2M
Jeffrey PhelpsNorth Richland Hills$1.9M
Eric WieserArlington$1.5M
Richard GuyerPlano$1.3M
Andrew ClavennaDallas$1.3M
Ivan ChengKyle$1.2M
Stephen TolhurstFlower Mound$1.1M
Michael ObrienPlano$1M

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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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