Richard Jones
Orthopaedic Surgery · Dallas, TXNPI 1558367664
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $6,233,781 of the $6,260,590 with a category attached, or 99.6%. Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. accounts for 100.0% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 72 payments — averaging $86,953 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$6.3M
- Smith+Nephew$69
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$65
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$6,233,781100%
- Consulting fees$23,1500%
- Travel & lodging$2,9080%
- Food & beverage$7520%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 70 | $6,260,456 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $69 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $65 |
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.
- ATTUNE$6,260,020
How this compares
$6,260,590 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Dallas
- James BrodskyDallas$2.5M
- Sumant KrishnanDallas$1.9M
- Wayne BurkheadDallas$1.2M
- Bradford WaddellDallas$325K
- Jay MabreyDallas$310K
- Eddie LoDallas$276K
- Clinton BellDallas$261K
- Jesus ReyDallas$227K
- Stephen BurkhartSan Antonio$185.3M
- Kirby HittTemple$9.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.