Ryan Morton, MD
Neurological Surgery · Fort Sam Houston, TXNPI 1922239268
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (59.9%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by GT Medical Technologies, Inc at 32.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,761 and has fallen 72.5% since, to $759 in 2025.
Across 80 payments — averaging $95.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GT Medical Technologies, Inc$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Penumbra, Inc.$2K
- Imperative Care, Inc$658
- Stryker$369
- Balt USA, LLC$205
- plus $206 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,00026%
- Travel & lodging$1,07514%
- Food & beverage$4,59160%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GT Medical Technologies, Inc | 4 | $2,496 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 24 | $2,119 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 12 | $1,614 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 28 | $658 |
| Stryker | 5 | $369 |
| Balt USA, LLC | 1 | $205 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 3 | $128 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $23 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 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.
- GammaTile$2,405
- Pipeline$1,723
- Penumbra System$1,420
- SURPASS EVOLVE$248
- Carrier Delivery Catheter$205
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$151
- ZOOM 88-T LARGE DISTAL PLATFORM$150
- Benchmark$138
- TREVO$112
- TARGET$112
How this compares
$7,666 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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 Fort Sam Houston
- 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
- Sabatino BiancoArlington$564K
- Rebecca StachniakPlano$561K
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.