Patrick Gleason, MD
Neurological Surgery · Corpus Christi, TXNPI 1629030804
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 112 payments — averaging $132.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spinesmith Holdings, LLC$5K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Brainlab, Inc.$1K
- Abbott$709
- Spineology Inc.$560
- plus $4K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,75032%
- Travel & lodging$4,81432%
- Food & beverage$5,19335%
- Entertainment$911%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spinesmith Holdings, LLC | 1 | $4,750 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 4 | $2,081 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $1,673 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 7 | $1,151 |
| Abbott | 29 | $709 |
| Spineology Inc. | 5 | $560 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 4 | $504 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 7 | $485 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 6 | $442 |
| Microtransponder, Inc. | 2 | $359 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $240 |
| Wenzel Spine, Inc. | 2 | $203 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 2 | $196 |
| Zap Surgical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $181 |
| Stryker | 1 | $153 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 3 | $145 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $113 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $107 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 1 | $90 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $79 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $61 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 4 | $52 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $46 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $39 |
| CTL Medical Corporation | 1 | $31 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| X-spine Systems, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Route 92 Medical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Excelsius - GPS$1,927
- Velys$1,731
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$393
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$306
- THRESHOLD PEDICLE SCREW SYSTEM$155
- ETERNA$154
- SONOPET IQ$153
- CORE$153
- Varilift$152
- Prospera$135
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$117
- Spine$115
- Image Guided Surgical Device$115
- Vital$115
- MYSPINE$111
- Zap-X$109
- Kcentra$107
How this compares
$14,849 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 235 | $5,657 |
| Nabumetone | 391 | $4,788 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 98 | $2,032 |
| Gabapentin | 66 | $1,758 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 50 | $1,128 |
| Celecoxib | 27 | $1,090 |
| Fentanyl | 14 | $1,070 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 23 | $843 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 67 | $610 |
| Dexamethasone | 11 | $234 |
| Meloxicam | 29 | $86 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 11 | $69 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Corpus Christi
- Adam LewisCorpus Christi$851K
- Mathew AlexanderCorpus Christi$390K
- 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
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.