Has Scott Kutz, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $50,639 in general payments to Scott Kutz, MD across 221 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 Kutz, 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 Kutz, 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 Kutz, MD

Neurological Surgery · Plano, TXNPI 1023081254

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (42.4%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 43 manufacturers reported payments, led by Tenon Medical, Inc. at 30.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $20,608 and has fallen 95.2% since, to $992 in 2025.

$50,639in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 221 payments — averaging $229.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Tenon Medical, Inc.$16K
Medtronic$8K
Innovasis Inc$8K
4web, Inc.$5K
Choice Spine, LLC$3K
Nanohive Medical LLC$2K
plus $9K from 37 others

$94,012in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $13,430 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

Augmedics Inc.$94K
Tenon Medical, Inc.$0

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$9022%
Consulting fees$9,30018%
Speaking & faculty fees$21,47542%
Travel & lodging$9,57019%
Food & beverage$8,94718%
Entertainment$4451%

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
Tenon Medical, Inc.	2	$15,663
Medtronic(2 entities)	69	$7,822
Innovasis Inc	3	$7,518
4web, Inc.	16	$5,108
Choice Spine, LLC	3	$3,340
Nanohive Medical LLC	2	$2,448
Globus Medical(2 entities)	27	$2,335
The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education	1	$894
Camber Spine Technologies LLC	11	$789
Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.	8	$541
VGI Medical, LLC	2	$490
Biedermann Motech, Inc.	3	$315
Spineology Inc.	3	$298
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	3	$278
Centinel Spine, LLC	7	$234
Spinesource, Inc.	1	$220
Medacta USA, Inc.	4	$213
Si-bone, Inc.	5	$204
Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C.	1	$194
Amplify Surgical, Inc.	3	$193
Life Spine, Inc.	3	$172
Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC	1	$150
Stryker	2	$132
CTL Medical Corporation	3	$124
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	2	$119
Benvenue Medical Inc	2	$114
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	3	$74
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	2	$70
Nalu Medical, Inc.	3	$68
Boston Scientific	4	$65
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	3	$64
Abbott	2	$63
Alphatec Spine, Inc	2	$60
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	3	$58
Augmedics Inc.	2	$55
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$29
Kls-martin L.p.	1	$28
Terumo BCT, Inc.	1	$26
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	3	$21
AbbVie	1	$13
CPM Medical Consultants, LLC	1	$12
Vertebral Technologies, Inc.	1	$12
Neo Spine USA, Inc.	1	$12

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.

CATAMARAN SIJ Fusion System$15,663
SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$4,865
SYNCHROMED$3,585
Thunderbolt Minimally Invasive Pedicle Screw Systems$3,340
INTELLIS$2,765
SiJoin$445
Excelsius - GPS$394
OsteoCentric 4.0 x 130mm LOCKING BONE SCREW FASTENER ST$392
Blackhawk Cervical Spacer System$340
VEO Lateral Interbody Fusion System$340
Triton$340
Stratofuse$340
MOSS100 Pedicle Screw System$298
Telix K Interbody System$298
XLIF$281
INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$267
Catamaran Sacroiliac Joint Fixation System$220
OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$217
HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$204
Hive ALIF, Hive O-AL, Hive Standalone Cervical$198

How this compares

$50,639 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 582 neurological surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$111,170

Medicare patients

Services billed

339

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	32	$601
Oxycodone Hcl	16	$201
Gabapentin	15	$75
Methylprednisolone	12	$72
Meloxicam	22	$32
Tramadol Hcl	12	$28

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Plano

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Richard WeinerPlano$225K
Luis MignucciPlano$195K
Koijan KainthThe Woodlands$1.3M
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Douglas FoxAustin$948K
Richard MeyratDallas$883K
Adam LewisCorpus Christi$792K
Arnold VardimanSan Antonio$687K
Andrew RoeserHouston$660K

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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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