Has Scott de la Garza, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,424 in general payments to Scott de la Garza, MD across 54 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 Scott de la Garza, 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 Scott de la Garza, 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.

Scott de la Garza, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Oklahoma City, OKNPI 1972565778

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Orthofix Medical, Inc. accounts for 72.6% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,651 and has fallen 84.7% since, to $406 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in OK, where the typical reported total is $9,276.

$4,424in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 54 payments — averaging $81.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Orthofix Medical, Inc.$3K
Zimmer Biomet$245
Stryker$162
Radius Health, Inc.$155
Life Spine, Inc.$122
Zavation Medical Products, LLC$120
plus $408 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,83842%
Food & beverage$2,58658%

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
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	26	$3,212
Zimmer Biomet	2	$245
Stryker(2 entities)	3	$162
Radius Health, Inc.	10	$155
Life Spine, Inc.	1	$122
Zavation Medical Products, LLC	2	$120
Shockwave Medical, Inc	1	$108
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	1	$99
Zimvie Inc.	2	$86
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$49
Medacta USA, Inc.	2	$39
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$15
Amgen	1	$13

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.

7D Surgical System$1,151
Admiral$374
Cervical-STIM$196
Trinity ELITE$162
PILLAR AL$162
Cabo$160
Accell Connexus$153
Persona$133
ProLift Pivot$122
Herbert Mini$112
Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$108
Mariner MIS$106

How this compares

$4,424 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 21 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Oklahoma.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$480,714

Medicare patients

492

Services billed

4,088

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
Tizanidine Hcl	408	$3,456
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	361	$3,222
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	303	$3,172
Gabapentin	269	$2,312
Tramadol Hcl	284	$1,856
Methylprednisolone	199	$1,473
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	50	$717
Oxycodone Hcl	49	$543
Ketorolac Tromethamine	56	$462
Meloxicam	82	$250
Ibuprofen	18	$241
Methocarbamol	14	$180
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	12	$176
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	13	$158
Ondansetron Hcl	13	$134

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Oklahoma City

Winston FongOklahoma City$758K
Cheng-Lun SooOklahoma City$327K
Brett BralyOklahoma City$279K
Jeffrey MooreOklahoma City$198K
Kevin WileyOklahoma City$39K
Cody GriffinOklahoma City$21K
Cameron ShiraziOklahoma City$15K
Santaram VallurupalliOklahoma City$5K
Timothy PuckettOklahoma City$130
Jeffrey SchimandleOklahoma City$17

See the full list for Oklahoma →

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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