Has Michael Hartman, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,982 in general payments to Michael Hartman, MD across 130 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 Michael Hartman, 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 Michael Hartman, 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.

Michael Hartman, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · San Antonio, TXNPI 1689692196

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $9,050 of the $12,982 with a category attached, or 69.7%. Medtronic accounts for 60.1% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,218 and has fallen 80.1% since, to $640 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $12,726.

$12,982in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 130 payments — averaging $99.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$8K
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$2K
Si-bone, Inc.$1K
Orthopediatrics Corp.$512
Biotissue Holdings Inc.$404
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$392
plus $956 from 11 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,93230%
Food & beverage$9,05070%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	59	$7,808
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	11	$1,724
Si-bone, Inc.	10	$1,185
Orthopediatrics Corp.	7	$512
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	2	$404
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	25	$392
Nevro Corp.	2	$176
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc	2	$140
Bioventus LLC	2	$137
Fuse Medical, Inc.	1	$129
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$117
Biohorizons Implant Systems Inc.	1	$74
Amniox Medical, Inc.	1	$68
Boston Scientific	1	$45
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$43
Painteq LLC	1	$14
Spinal Elements, 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.

How this compares

$12,982 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 207 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$34,063

Medicare patients

Services billed

229

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.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in San Antonio

M DennisSan Antonio$236K
Kevin RichardsonSan Antonio$90K
Antonio WebbSan Antonio$75K
Adam BruggemanSan Antonio$64K
Randall DryerAustin$2.9M
Craig KuhnsAustin$2.4M
David WimberleyHouston$2.2M
Jeffrey PhelpsNorth Richland Hills$1.9M
Eric WieserArlington$1.5M
Andrew ClavennaDallas$1.3M

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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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