Ross Chapel, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · McAllen, TXNPI 1922325190
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 181 payments — averaging $104.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$10K
- Medinc Of Texas$3K
- Arthrex$2K
- Advanced Orthopaedic Solutions, Inc.$2K
- Kerecis Limited$516
- Medacta USA, Inc.$468
- plus $1K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$7,57340%
- Food & beverage$8,97047%
- Education$2,43013%
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 | 129 | $10,084 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 3 | $2,524 |
| Arthrex | 11 | $2,332 |
| Advanced Orthopaedic Solutions, Inc. | 5 | $1,660 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $516 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 4 | $468 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $388 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $250 |
| Bioventus LLC | 12 | $204 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $127 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $96 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $75 |
| Mission Medical Distribution, LLC | 1 | $74 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $17 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 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.
- REUNION$2,757
- AOS PRODUCTS$1,387
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$1,293
- PANGEA$1,283
- T2$900
- GAMMA$900
- AXSOS$667
- TRAUMA$505
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$431
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$431
- GMK SPHERE$378
- VARIAX$374
- CellerateRx$213
- MAGELLAN/AOS PRODUCTS$152
- STRATAFIX$147
- NEUROMEND$140
- SURGIFLO Hemostatic Matrix$136
- T2 ALPHA$133
- Grafix$111
- GRAFIX PL$111
How this compares
$18,972 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 89 | $854 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 33 | $235 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 59 | $151 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 11 | $70 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in McAllen
- Stephen BurkhartSan Antonio$185.3M
- Kirby HittTemple$9.1M
- J Richard EvansonPlano$8.1M
- Stefan KreuzerHouston$7M
- Robert GrahamAustin$6.3M
- Richard JonesDallas$6.3M
- Howard HarrisBedford$4.6M
- Tiffany HuynhHouston$4.6M
- Michael WirthSan Antonio$4.5M
- Stephen IncavoHouston$4.3M
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.