Michael Schwartz, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Plano, TXNPI 1427041557
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $435,431 of the $638,847 with a category attached, or 68.2%. Medtronic accounts for 92.9% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $459,054 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $901 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 107 payments — averaging $5970.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$593K
- Trice Medical, Inc.$13K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$12K
- Exactech, Inc.$9K
- Tigon Medical LLC$4K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- plus $6K from 16 others
Across 24 payments — averaging $6177.50 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$148K
Across 20 payments — averaging $15,380 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Lazurite Inc.$181K
- Zurimed Technologies Inc.$127K
- Trice Medical, Inc.$0
- Titan Spine, LLC$0
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$435,43168%
- Consulting fees$35,4436%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2000%
- Travel & lodging$4,1421%
- Food & beverage$5,5051%
- Entertainment$2160%
- Other$157,91025%
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) | 5 | $593,341 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 16 | $12,975 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 9 | $11,508 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 8 | $9,357 |
| Tigon Medical LLC | 3 | $4,150 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $1,971 |
| Pavmed Inc. | 26 | $1,468 |
| Lazurite Inc. | 2 | $1,216 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $873 |
| Abanza Inc. | 6 | $721 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $293 |
| Arcuro Medical Inc | 1 | $164 |
| Moximed, Inc | 1 | $154 |
| Steris Corporation | 1 | $142 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $137 |
| Vericel Corporation | 2 | $119 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $95 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $71 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $45 |
| CPM Medical Consultants, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $13 |
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.
- nanoLOCK-C$86,442
- nanoLOCK-L$71,468
- Segway blade or mieye camera$12,743
- OPTECURE$9,335
- Bioknotless Ethibond$7,280
- FMS Duo$2,719
- Omnispan Orthocord$2,600
- QUICKANCHOR ORTHOCORD$2,600
- BIOKNOTLESS$1,575
- HEALIX$1,017
- Mitek$890
- WasherCap Fixation System 10mm$656
- RIGIDLOOP$480
- DYNACORD$451
- CARPX$447
- WasherCap Mini Fixation system 4.5mm$402
- Kischner wire$254
- BRISTOW-LATARJET$182
- SUPERBALL$164
- MISHA KNEE SYSTEM, SMALL, LEFT$154
How this compares
$638,847 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 45 | $907 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 13 | $775 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 89 | $735 |
| Cephalexin | 16 | $319 |
| Meloxicam | 102 | $260 |
| Tramadol Hcl-AcetaminophenTramadol Hcl/Acetaminophen | 13 | $92 |
| Amoxicillin | 23 | $47 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 17 | $32 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Plano
- Isador LiebermanPlano$1.3M
- Gerhard MaalePlano$983K
- Jack ZiglerPlano$949K
- Cyrus AbbaschianPlano$605K
- Khalid YousufPlano$485K
- Robert JohnsonPlano$217K
- Stephen BurkhartSan Antonio$185.3M
- Kirby HittTemple$9.1M
- Robert GrahamAustin$6.3M
- Richard JonesDallas$6.3M
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.