Has Samir Lapsiwala, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $59,796 in general payments to Samir Lapsiwala, MD across 340 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 Samir Lapsiwala, 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 Samir Lapsiwala, 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.

Samir Lapsiwala, MD

Neurological Surgery · Fort Worth, TXNPI 1891735684

Payments from drug & device makers

$59,796in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 340 payments — averaging $175.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$32K
Implanet America, Inc.$6K
Nevro Corp.$3K
Si-bone, Inc.$2K
Surgentec$2K
CTL Medical Corporation$2K
plus $12K from 37 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$8,00013%
Speaking & faculty fees$23,17539%
Travel & lodging$9,91317%
Food & beverage$18,53131%
Gifts$1770%

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
Globus Medical	63	$32,307
Implanet America, Inc.	2	$6,186
Nevro Corp.	57	$2,774
Si-bone, Inc.	34	$2,250
Surgentec	2	$2,000
CTL Medical Corporation	10	$1,952
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	48	$1,874
Stryker	9	$1,691
Cerapedics Inc.	1	$1,500
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	12	$845
Pylant Medical	7	$669
Abbott	11	$666
Choice Spine, LLC	3	$581
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	9	$550
Medtronic(2 entities)	12	$511
Intrinsic Therapeutics	3	$350
Vertiflex, Inc.	3	$316
EBI, LLC	8	$288
Boston Scientific	3	$247
Arthrex	4	$247
Spine Wave, Inc.	2	$232
Spinal Elements, Inc.	4	$211
Highridge Medical LLC	2	$163
Davol Inc.	2	$160
Woven Orthopedic Technologies, LLC	1	$137
Ulrich Medical USA, Inc.	1	$135
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$117
Baxter Healthcare	3	$110
Vertex	4	$109
Smith+Nephew	4	$98
NICO Corporation	1	$92
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$87
Intuitive Surgical	1	$64
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC	2	$56
Intellijoint Surgical Inc.	1	$55
Mimedx Group, Inc.	1	$36
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$25
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$24
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$21
Masimo Corporation	1	$19
Omniscient Neurotechnology America Ltd	1	$16
Trevena, Inc.	1	$14
Augmedics Inc.	1	$10

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.

Excelsius - GPS$29,090
iFuse Implant$1,634
i-FACTOR Putty$1,500
IVS - VERTEBRAL AUGMENTATION PRODUCTS$1,400
Spinal$1,200
ION Facet Screw$1,000
ION Facet Screw System$1,000
Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$938
Excelsius Robotics System$740
Raphael Pedicle Screw System$592
VEO Lateral Interbody Fusion System$502
Omnia$482
Simplify Cervical Artificial Disc$409
RELINE$403
BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$403
ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$401
EXCELSIUS$338
Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$336
M6-C$332
Modulus$264

How this compares

$59,796 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 582 neurological surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$389,570

Medicare patients

361

Services billed

1,415

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
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	132	$1,217
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	84	$993
Gabapentin	60	$675
Methylprednisolone	58	$407
Meloxicam	70	$182
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	17	$159
Tizanidine Hcl	27	$148
Amitriptyline Hcl	12	$131
Methocarbamol	15	$104

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Fort Worth

Gregory SmithFort Worth$247K
Grant BooherFort Worth$167K
John DormanOdessa$8.5M
Daniel PetersonAustin$5.8M
Daniel CurryHouston$3M
Peter KanGalveston$1.8M
Mirza BaigShenandoah$1.6M
Koijan KainthThe Woodlands$1.3M
Luis DuarteSan Angelo$1.2M
Douglas FoxAustin$948K

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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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