Has Nolan Malthesen, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,991 in general payments to Nolan Malthesen, MD across 22 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 Nolan Malthesen, 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 Nolan Malthesen, 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.

Nolan Malthesen, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Benbrook, TXNPI 1285823526

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,991in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $90.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$2K
Sanara Medtech Inc.$176
Next Science LLC$130
Pylant Medical$75
Smith+Nephew$33

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,29265%
Food & beverage$69935%

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
Zimmer Biomet	16	$1,577
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$176
Next Science LLC	1	$130
Pylant Medical	3	$75
Smith+Nephew	1	$33

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

$1,991 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$248,952

Medicare patients

354

Services billed

13,204

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	126	$1,620
Celecoxib	45	$1,030
Oxycodone Hcl	92	$628
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	44	$437
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	39	$372
Meloxicam	102	$296
Gabapentin	40	$281
Mupirocin	25	$243
Tramadol Hcl	45	$219
Cephalexin	50	$200
Cefadroxil	28	$134
Methocarbamol	18	$132
Famotidine	15	$109
Methylprednisolone	11	$67
Promethazine Hcl	11	$38

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Benbrook

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
Stephen IncavoHouston$4.3M

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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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