Max Kopitnik, MD
Trauma Surgery · Waco, TXNPI 1588027551
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $3,000 of the $3,674 with a category attached, or 81.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 91.3% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,432 and has fallen 97.6% since, to $81 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for trauma surgery clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $3,230.
Across 16 payments — averaging $229.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- AbbVie$128
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$77
- TELA Bio, Inc.$64
- CSL Behring$19
- Smith+Nephew$17
- plus $15 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2326%
- Food & beverage$44212%
- Education$3,00082%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 6 | $3,353 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $128 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $77 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $64 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $19 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $17 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$3,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$226
- STRATTICE$128
How this compares
$3,674 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 108 trauma 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 26 | $239 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 16 | $75 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other trauma surgery in Waco
- Billy MorganWaco$122K
- Danny OwensWaco$16K
- Luis FernandezTyler$493K
- Sudeep BurmanAustin$72K
- Jennifer MoffettHouston$68K
- Michael WandlingHouston$25K
- Michael EricksonGalveston$18K
- Ryan KennedyDallas$18K
- Thomas GoaleyMansfield$17K
- Tessa WoodsFort Worth$17K
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.