Michael Serra Torres, MD
Orthopaedic Trauma · Edinburg, TXNPI 1679733281
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,912 of the $4,076 with a category attached, or 71.4%. Stryker accounts for 78.8% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,017 and has fallen 86.1% since, to $281 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic trauma clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $14,950.
Across 58 payments — averaging $70.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- Zimmer Biomet$480
- Johnson & Johnson$218
- Medtronic$121
- Si-bone, Inc.$30
- Acumed LLC$14
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,16429%
- Food & beverage$2,91271%
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 | 43 | $3,213 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 8 | $480 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $218 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $121 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $14 |
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
$4,076 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 74 orthopaedic trauma 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.
Other orthopaedic trauma in Edinburg
- Marshall GilletteEdinburg$17K
- Cory CollingeFort Worth$2.8M
- John MunzHouston$1M
- Kyle DicksonHouston$975K
- Timothy AchorHouston$561K
- Jonathan EastmanHouston$361K
- Stephen WarnerHouston$357K
- Edgar AraizaDallas$270K
- Milton L RouttHouston$266K
- Andrew ChooHouston$262K
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.