Has Robert Schmidt, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,021,735 in general payments to Robert Schmidt, MD across 118 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 Schmidt, MD 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 Schmidt, MD 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 Schmidt, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Fort Worth, TXNPI 1104993757

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,912,415 of the $2,021,735 with a category attached, or 94.6%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 99.3% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $673,250 and has fallen 99.5% since, to $3,631 in 2025. 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.

$2,021,735in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 118 payments — averaging $17,133 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$2M
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$8K
Shalby Advanced Technologies, Inc.$3K
Johnson & Johnson$781
Stryker$572
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$320
plus $556 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$1,912,41595%
Consulting fees$8,9590%
Speaking & faculty fees$95,5505%
Travel & lodging$9880%
Food & beverage$3,8230%

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
Zimmer Biomet	32	$2,007,996
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	12	$8,091
Shalby Advanced Technologies, Inc.	9	$3,419
Johnson & Johnson	22	$781
Stryker	10	$572
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	16	$320
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$135
Microport Orthopedics Inc	2	$97
Bioventus LLC	4	$95
Smith+Nephew	1	$69
Innovation Technologies Inc	2	$49
Vertex	2	$41
Davol Inc.	1	$27
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$18
Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$15
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	1	$11

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

$2,021,735 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$270,553

Medicare patients

367

Services billed

2,091

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	178	$2,839
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	63	$1,057
Celecoxib	72	$993
Cephalexin	151	$892
Meloxicam	38	$167
Tramadol Hcl	29	$111
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	25	$84
Gabapentin	22	$80
Clindamycin Hcl	25	$60

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Fort Worth

Stephen BurkhartSan Antonio$185.3M
Kirby HittTemple$9.1M
Robert GrahamAustin$6.3M
Richard JonesDallas$6.3M
Stefan KreuzerHouston$6.2M
Michael WirthSan Antonio$4.5M
Stephen IncavoHouston$4.3M
Thomas EdwardsHouston$4.1M
James BrodskyDallas$2.5M
Sumant KrishnanDallas$1.9M

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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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