Has Robert Farber, DPM received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $28,602 in general payments to Robert Farber, DPM across 625 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Robert Farber, DPM did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Robert Farber, DPM come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Robert Farber, DPM

Foot & Ankle Surgery · San Antonio, TXNPI 1346652807

Payments from drug & device makers

$28,602in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 625 payments — averaging $45.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$9K
Medinc Of Texas$4K
Arthrex$3K
Smith+Nephew$3K
Vilex LLC$1K
Mission Medical Distribution, LLC$859
plus $7K from 51 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$4,56616%
Food & beverage$19,27367%
Education$4,76317%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Stryker(2 entities)	218	$9,067
Medinc Of Texas	11	$3,988
Arthrex	23	$3,262
Smith+Nephew	112	$2,790
Vilex LLC	10	$1,430
Mission Medical Distribution, LLC	7	$859
Kerecis Limited	8	$855
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.	22	$764
Nevro Corp.	17	$752
Organogenesis Inc.	22	$544
Amgen(2 entities)	36	$475
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	26	$460
Nvision Biomedical Technologies, Inc.	7	$325
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	5	$280
GRT US Holding, Inc.	6	$200
Bone Support Inc.	2	$192
Globus Medical	3	$189
Sanara Medtech Inc.	4	$180
Bioventus LLC	5	$171
Acumed LLC	1	$141
Ortho Solutions Inc	1	$135
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$110
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	6	$109
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	9	$99
Vaporox, Inc.	2	$87
AbbVie	3	$71
KCI USA, Inc.	2	$66
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$65
Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	4	$63
Averitas Pharma Inc.	4	$63
Medtronic	3	$57
Medartis Inc.	1	$52
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$51
Acera Surgical, Inc.	2	$47
Journey Medical Corporation	2	$46
Zimmer Biomet	1	$45
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	3	$40
Baudax Bio Inc.	2	$36
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	4	$36
Biocomposites Inc	1	$34
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC	2	$32
Medline Industries LP	2	$30
Vertex	1	$29
Misonix Inc	1	$29
Convatec Inc.	1	$28
Tactile Systems Technology Inc	2	$27
Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC	2	$25
Merck	2	$25
Solventum Corporation	1	$20
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$19
Sandoz	1	$19
Mimedx Group, Inc.	1	$16
Orpyx Medical Technologies US Inc.	1	$16
Boston Scientific	1	$15
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	1	$14
Assertio Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$13
Reprise Biomedical, Inc.	1	$10

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.

How this compares

$28,602 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 684 foot & ankle surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$853,663

Medicare patients

334

Services billed

2,747

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
Gabapentin	47	$384
Doxycycline Monohydrate	23	$285
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	31	$221
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	56	$217
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	15	$148
Mupirocin	12	$126
Methylprednisolone	20	$120
Meloxicam	63	$110
Tramadol Hcl	27	$77
Promethazine Hcl	12	$31

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other foot & ankle surgery in San Antonio

Richard PollakSan Antonio$6.1M
Chad HowzeSan Antonio$2.4M
Ian BarronSan Antonio$162K
Walter StrashSan Antonio$86K
Thomas ZgonisSan Antonio$79K
Joseph CaporussoMcAllen$6M
Mark DaltonAustin$4.1M
William McGarveyKaty$3.5M
Eugene CurryDallas$3.1M
Graham HamiltonEdinburg$2.1M

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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.

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