S Temple, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Paris, TXNPI 1689673949
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $1,200 of the $1,632 with a category attached, or 73.5%. Pylant Medical accounts for 75.3% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,299 and has fallen 84.6% since, to $200 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $4,671.
Across 13 payments — averaging $125.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pylant Medical$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$188
- Smith+Nephew$124
- Zimmer Biomet$43
- Stryker$22
- Bioventus LLC$14
- plus $13 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$43226%
- Education$1,20074%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pylant Medical | 2 | $1,228 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $188 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $124 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $43 |
| Stryker | 1 | $22 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$1,632 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 215 | $719 |
| Pregabalin | 36 | $396 |
| Gabapentin | 26 | $334 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 102 | $278 |
| Mupirocin | 20 | $192 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 28 | $141 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 12 | $96 |
| Celecoxib | 19 | $79 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Paris
- 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
- Robert SchmidtFort Worth$2M
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.