Richard Weiner, MD
Neurological Surgery · Plano, TXNPI 1093701872
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $179,711 of the $225,010 with a category attached, or 79.9%. Life Spine, Inc. accounts for 63.1% of it on its own, with 25 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $67,227 and has fallen 82.7% since, to $11,639 in 2025. Among neurological 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 229 payments — averaging $982.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Life Spine, Inc.$142K
- Wound Management Technologies, Inc$29K
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$23K
- Curonix LLC$11K
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$11K
- Stryker$5K
- plus $4K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$179,71180%
- Speaking & faculty fees$12,7886%
- Travel & lodging$19,7849%
- Food & beverage$8,5124%
- Education$2,8851%
- Gifts$1,0230%
- Entertainment$3080%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Life Spine, Inc. | 118 | $142,051 |
| Wound Management Technologies, Inc | 7 | $28,738 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 25 | $23,436 |
| Curonix LLC | 12 | $10,696 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 23 | $10,551 |
| Stryker | 7 | $5,449 |
| Interventional Pain Technologies Inc. | 2 | $1,147 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 4 | $854 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $443 |
| Zap Surgical Systems, Inc. | 5 | $299 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $260 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $212 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $162 |
| Innovasis Inc | 1 | $150 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $97 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $51 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $49 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Sebela Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| GT Medical Technologies, 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.
- ProLift$94,347
- AVATAR MINIMALLY INVASIVE SPINAL SYSTEM$62,436
- CellerateRx$51,710
- CENTRIC - T RETRACTOR$44,997
- SIMpact$22,376
- Avatar$19,417
- Centric-T$17,757
- DYNA-LINK STAND-ALONE ANTERIOR LUMBAR SYSTEM$17,007
- PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$10,411
- ProLift Lateral$10,376
- Dyna-Link$8,937
- Modular Screws$6,500
- ARx$6,474
- DynaLink-Ti$3,452
- Lateral$3,149
- MIS-TLIF$3,149
- NAUTILUS SPINAL SYSTEM$2,223
- Midline PLIF$1,885
- ACDF$1,885
- ALIF$1,885
How this compares
$225,010 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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.
Other neurological surgery in Plano
- Rebecca StachniakPlano$561K
- Luis MignucciPlano$195K
- Koijan KainthThe Woodlands$1.3M
- Luis DuarteSan Angelo$1.2M
- Douglas FoxAustin$948K
- Richard MeyratDallas$883K
- Adam LewisCorpus Christi$792K
- Arnold VardimanSan Antonio$687K
- Andrew RoeserHouston$660K
- Scott RobertsonRound Rock$606K
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.