Scott Mitchell, MD
Hand Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1134383979
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $10,409 of the $11,952 with a category attached, or 87.1%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Acumed LLC at 26.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,345 and has fallen 51.7% since, to $1,616 in 2025.
Across 244 payments — averaging $48.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Acumed LLC$3K
- Stryker$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Globus Medical$1K
- Medinc Of Texas$1K
- Axogen$647
- plus $865 from 10 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $12,093 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Phasor Health, LLC$85K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3433%
- Food & beverage$10,40987%
- Education$1,20010%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acumed LLC | 23 | $3,136 |
| Stryker | 55 | $2,858 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 57 | $1,663 |
| Globus Medical | 48 | $1,424 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 5 | $1,359 |
| Axogen | 14 | $647 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 28 | $614 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $46 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Aap Implants Inc | 2 | $37 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $34 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Abbott | 1 | $15 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $15 |
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.
- OsteoMed$2,016
- ACUMED$903
- INnate Implant$151
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$102
How this compares
$11,952 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 170 hand 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 hand surgery in Houston
- Kourosh JafarniaHouston$278K
- Adil AhmedHouston$30K
- Andrea TianHouston$26K
- Kyle WoernerHouston$18K
- Adam SharHouston$16K
- Darshan PatelHouston$12K
- Ashton MansourHouston$11K
- Mark KhorsandiHouston$10K
- James BennettHouston$10K
- Randy LuoHouston$8K
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.