Richard Barber, MD
Orthopaedic Trauma · Corpus Christi, TXNPI 1992952857
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $192,916 of the $244,139 with a category attached, or 79.0%. Arthrex accounts for 88.7% of it on its own, with 26 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $194,630 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $248 in 2025.
Across 136 payments — averaging $1795.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$217K
- Advanced Orthopaedic Solutions, Inc.$22K
- Medinc Of Texas$4K
- Stryker$494
- Kerecis Limited$406
- Bioventus LLC$189
- plus $1K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$192,91679%
- Consulting fees$15,9257%
- Speaking & faculty fees$20,5148%
- Travel & lodging$7,6673%
- Food & beverage$4,2282%
- Education$2,8891%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 47 | $216,538 |
| Advanced Orthopaedic Solutions, Inc. | 18 | $21,740 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 6 | $3,555 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 6 | $494 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $406 |
| Bioventus LLC | 10 | $189 |
| AbbVie | 10 | $183 |
| Pylant Medical | 1 | $125 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $125 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $105 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $103 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $80 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $72 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 3 | $66 |
| Hydrofera LLC | 3 | $57 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $49 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $33 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $30 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $20 |
| Hartmann USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $17 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- AOS PRODUCTS$21,491
- WORKHORSE SCREW, T10, NON-LOCKING, O3.5MM X 70MM$2,254
- WORKHORSE SCREW, T10, NON-LOCKING, O3.5MM X 30MM$2,254
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$1,313
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$328
- VARIAX$150
- INFINITY$122
- T2$112
- Affinity$105
- BILAYER WOUND MATRIX (BWM)$103
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$103
- AMNIOEXCEL$103
- IDRT$103
- FLOWABLE$103
How this compares
$244,139 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 74 orthopaedic trauma 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 | 16 | $301 |
| Gabapentin | 24 | $247 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 22 | $189 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $66 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic trauma in Corpus Christi
- Matthew NegemCorpus Christi$40K
- Jorge de LeonCorpus Christi$22K
- Cory CollingeFort Worth$2.8M
- John MunzHouston$1M
- Kyle DicksonHouston$975K
- Timothy AchorHouston$561K
- Jonathan EastmanHouston$361K
- Stephen WarnerHouston$357K
- Edgar AraizaDallas$270K
- Milton L RouttHouston$266K
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.