Michael Putney, MD
Sports Medicine · Cedar Park, TXNPI 1760596597
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 100 payments — averaging $79.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$4K
- Arthrex$2K
- Medinc Of Texas$560
- Medtronic$221
- Radius Health, Inc.$123
- Abbott$108
- plus $698 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,89536%
- Food & beverage$3,27741%
- Education$1,79623%
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 | 45 | $3,863 |
| Arthrex | 15 | $2,395 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 2 | $560 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $221 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Abbott | 6 | $108 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Core Surgical Group | 1 | $81 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $81 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $77 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $55 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $46 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $43 |
| BD | 2 | $42 |
| Vertex | 1 | $33 |
| Amgen | 2 | $32 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $23 |
| Orthogenrx Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $16 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $14 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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.
- MAKO$1,570
- ACCOLADE$1,037
- PELVIS II$169
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$156
- TRIDENT$140
How this compares
$7,967 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 437 sports medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nabumetone | 171 | $1,702 |
| Celecoxib | 42 | $603 |
| Methylprednisolone | 68 | $383 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 26 | $366 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 27 | $230 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 11 | $64 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $20 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Cedar Park
- Timothy VachrisAustin$5.7M
- Thomas DeberardinoSan Antonio$3.5M
- Mark HutchensAustin$2.5M
- Robert ScheinbergDallas$2.2M
- Marc LabbeThe Woodlands$2M
- Walter LoweHouston$1.4M
- Reed BartzSunnyvale$1.2M
- David BrownHouston$920K
- James GregoryHouston$848K
- Matthew HiggsHouston$634K
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.