Has Miguel Berastain, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,807 in general payments to Miguel Berastain, MD across 43 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 Miguel Berastain, 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 Miguel Berastain, 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.

Miguel Berastain, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Corpus Christi, TXNPI 1568416048

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,807in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 43 payments — averaging $111.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medinc Of Texas$3K
Stryker$1K
Smith+Nephew$673
Johnson & Johnson$115
Vertex$88
Innovation Technologies Inc$50
plus $80 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,04122%
Food & beverage$1,19925%
Education$2,56753%

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
Medinc Of Texas	2	$2,567
Stryker	16	$1,234
Smith+Nephew	12	$673
Johnson & Johnson	1	$115
Vertex	5	$88
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$50
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$36
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	2	$29
BD	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.

How this compares

$4,807 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$177,878

Medicare patients

297

Services billed

2,200

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	633	$6,910
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	162	$2,242
Tramadol Hcl	362	$2,107
Oxycodone Hcl	242	$1,899
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	142	$1,484
Gabapentin	184	$1,483
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	142	$1,264
Diclofenac Sodium	74	$676
Pregabalin	51	$613
Cephalexin	14	$594
Methylprednisolone	72	$504
Clindamycin Hcl	21	$185
Ibuprofen	17	$170
Tizanidine Hcl	29	$163
Ondansetron Hcl	21	$116

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Corpus Christi

John MascialeCorpus Christi$825K
Stephen BurkhartSan Antonio$185.3M
Kirby HittTemple$9.1M
J Richard EvansonPlano$8.1M
Stefan KreuzerHouston$7M
Robert GrahamAustin$6.3M
Richard JonesDallas$6.3M
Howard HarrisBedford$4.6M
Tiffany HuynhHouston$4.6M
Michael WirthSan Antonio$4.5M

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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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