Shah-Nawaz Dodwad, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Houston, TXNPI 1477882520
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $603,561 of the $710,367 with a category attached, or 85.0%. Stryker accounts for 99.6% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $163,656 and has fallen 98.2% since, to $2,968 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 998 payments — averaging $711.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$707K
- VB Spine LLC$1K
- Si-bone, Inc.$323
- Johnson & Johnson$301
- Globus Medical$242
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$148
- plus $732 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$603,56185%
- Travel & lodging$81,72612%
- Food & beverage$25,0804%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 957 | $707,408 |
| VB Spine LLC | 18 | $1,212 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $323 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 9 | $301 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $242 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $148 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $145 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $144 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $137 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $135 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $108 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $20 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $16 |
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.
- SPINEJACK$227,014
- IVS - VERTEBRAL AUGMENTATION PRODUCTS$76,308
- AVAFLEX$74,318
- AUTOPLEX$74,318
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$72,259
- VERTEPORT$59,150
- IVAS$54,818
- TRITANIUM$53,345
- AIRO$44,695
- N/A$42,064
- SERRATO$40,844
- ES2$38,177
- AERO$34,910
- OASYS$34,200
- ES2 SPINAL SYSTEM$25,787
- NIAGARA LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$23,725
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$19,497
- CASCADIA$18,500
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$17,898
- OPTABLATE$17,619
How this compares
$710,367 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 207 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Texas.
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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 orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Houston
- David WimberleyHouston$2.2M
- Leonard KibuuleHouston$621K
- Vivek KushwahaHouston$573K
- Robert MohrHouston$352K
- Bernhard MeyerHouston$238K
- Ryan StuckeyHouston$181K
- Rex MarcoHouston$174K
- Richard FrancisHouston$156K
- Ra'kerry RahmanHouston$45K
- Randall DryerAustin$2.9M
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.