Nicholas Ferraro, MD
Neurological Surgery · Frisco, TXNPI 1457644205
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 197 payments — averaging $94.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$7K
- 4web, Inc.$3K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$587
- plus $3K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,09517%
- Travel & lodging$5,79031%
- Food & beverage$9,69152%
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 | 87 | $7,391 |
| 4web, Inc. | 14 | $2,515 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 20 | $2,264 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $1,302 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $1,100 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 17 | $587 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 6 | $570 |
| Pylant Medical | 3 | $569 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $494 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 9 | $437 |
| Republic Spine | 1 | $180 |
| VB Spine LLC | 1 | $176 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 2 | $172 |
| Terumo BCT, Inc. | 2 | $157 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $81 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $69 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $60 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 2 | $55 |
| Spineology Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Abbott | 1 | $30 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $27 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Theragen, Inc. | 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.
- SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$2,000
- XLIF$1,272
- CONCORDE$1,207
- EXPAREL$1,095
- SERRATO$1,003
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$797
- MONTEREY AL$795
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$540
- TLIF$433
- N/A$429
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$350
- UNIVERSAL NEURO 3$337
- Surgical planning and navigation radiation treatment planning and positioning$214
- Dark Star$180
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$171
- icotec BlackArmor Spine System$151
- SPINEMAP$149
- SONOPET IQ$149
- SPINEJACK$149
- ES2 SPINAL SYSTEM$138
How this compares
$18,576 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 582 neurological 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.
Other neurological surgery in Frisco
- Ripul PanchalFrisco$683K
- John DormanOdessa$8.5M
- Daniel PetersonAustin$5.8M
- Daniel CurryHouston$3M
- Peter KanGalveston$1.8M
- Mirza BaigShenandoah$1.6M
- Koijan KainthThe Woodlands$1.3M
- Luis DuarteSan Angelo$1.2M
- Douglas FoxAustin$948K
- Richard MeyratDallas$883K
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.