Has Ryan Stuckey, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $180,617 in general payments to Ryan Stuckey, MD across 119 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 Ryan Stuckey, 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 Ryan Stuckey, 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.

Ryan Stuckey, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Houston, TXNPI 1427270388

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $152,471 of the $180,617 with a category attached, or 84.4%. Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 99.8% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $71,443, more than ten times the $26 reported in 2019.

$180,617in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 119 payments — averaging $1517.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alphatec Spine, Inc$180K
Amgen$123
Johnson & Johnson$105
Cerapedics Inc.$31
Vertex$16

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$152,47184%
Travel & lodging$22,94313%
Food & beverage$5,1753%
Entertainment$290%

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
Alphatec Spine, Inc	105	$180,342
Amgen	8	$123
Johnson & Johnson	4	$105
Cerapedics Inc.	1	$31
Vertex	1	$16

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

$180,617 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 207 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$437,017

Medicare patients

408

Services billed

2,037

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
Celecoxib	44	$749
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	51	$486
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	26	$339
Meloxicam	131	$289
Gabapentin	58	$269
Methocarbamol	60	$164
Methylprednisolone	18	$146
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	12	$55
Tramadol Hcl	13	$49

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Bernhard MeyerHouston$238K
Rex MarcoHouston$174K
Richard FrancisHouston$156K
Ra'kerry RahmanHouston$45K
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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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