Paul Freudigman, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Waxahachie, TXNPI 1447263611
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 101 payments — averaging $555.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$43K
- Exactech, Inc.$11K
- Stryker$725
- Advita Ortho, LLC$500
- Johnson & Johnson$359
- Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc.$240
- plus $579 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$12,62522%
- Speaking & faculty fees$33,00059%
- Travel & lodging$5,34210%
- Food & beverage$5,1689%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 41 | $43,194 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 17 | $10,537 |
| Stryker | 6 | $725 |
| Advita Ortho, LLC | 1 | $500 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 9 | $359 |
| Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. | 2 | $240 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $106 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $94 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 5 | $87 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $69 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $57 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $38 |
| Vertex | 1 | $27 |
| Amniox Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 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.
- ILIZAROV$16,250
- CANNULATED SCREWS$10,500
- Conquest FN$10,500
- Jet-X$10,500
- META TAN$10,500
- Peri-Loc$10,500
- Taylor Spatial Frame$9,121
- TRULIANT$8,637
- Ilizarov System$6,250
- EQUINOXE$1,513
- EVOS$1,386
- PRECICE$219
- ALTEON$146
- TRIGEN$144
- SPATIAL FRAME$144
- VESUVIUS$137
- TRIGEN InterTAN$127
- MONOVISC$123
- ALLOGRAFT$111
- VA-LCP PLATES & SCREWS$111
How this compares
$56,135 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic 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 | 137 | $1,833 |
| Celecoxib | 60 | $1,547 |
| Gabapentin | 120 | $1,081 |
| Tranexamic Acid | 42 | $725 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 105 | $562 |
| Meloxicam | 73 | $512 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 22 | $390 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 14 | $242 |
| Mupirocin | 16 | $156 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 46 | $132 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 20 | $116 |
| Amoxicillin | 14 | $10 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Waxahachie
- 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
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.