Sabatino Bianco, MD
Neurological Surgery · Arlington, TXNPI 1518921139
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $475,581 of the $563,627 with a category attached, or 84.4%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alphatec Spine, Inc at 51.4% of the total. Among neurological 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.
Across 152 payments — averaging $3708.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$289K
- Hyhte Holdings Inc.$176K
- Stryker$81K
- Captiva Spine Inc$8K
- Globus Medical$6K
- Brainlab, Inc.$3K
- plus $527 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$475,58184%
- Consulting fees$58,06410%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,2551%
- Travel & lodging$23,1044%
- Food & beverage$3,6231%
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 | 77 | $289,440 |
| Hyhte Holdings Inc. | 2 | $176,451 |
| Stryker | 23 | $80,923 |
| Captiva Spine Inc | 14 | $7,550 |
| Globus Medical | 14 | $5,997 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 9 | $2,739 |
| VB Spine LLC | 3 | $302 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $106 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $14 |
| Irras USA, Inc. | 1 | $7 |
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.
- INVICTUS OPEN$182,286
- Other - Miscellaneous$82,433
- MOJAVE$51,875
- MOJAVE EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$29,171
- Invictus MIS$15,569
- Transfasten$6,132
- SafeOp$5,500
- Battalion TLIF - PC$5,500
- REVERE 6.35 Degen Ti System$5,270
- Brainlab, Inc.$2,558
- CapLOX II$1,141
- REVERE$650
- MULTIPLE$456
- BIOLOGICS$325
- IdentiTi$268
How this compares
$563,627 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 Arlington
- 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
- Rebecca StachniakPlano$561K
- John StokesAustin$522K
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.