Stephen Nevins
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1528148996
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,221 of the $6,528 with a category attached, or 80.0%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Organogenesis Inc. at 46.5% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,149, 6.3 times the $341 reported in 2019.
Across 511 payments — averaging $12.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Organogenesis Inc.$3K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Imbed Biosciences Inc.$715
- Medtronic$175
- Osiris Therapeutics Inc.$69
- ETS Wound Care LLC$62
- plus $203 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$71411%
- Food & beverage$5,22180%
- Other$5929%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Organogenesis Inc. | 299 | $3,038 |
| Smith+Nephew | 130 | $2,266 |
| Imbed Biosciences Inc. | 57 | $715 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $175 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 5 | $69 |
| ETS Wound Care LLC | 8 | $62 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $25 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $7 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $4 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $3 |
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.
How this compares
$6,528 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 684 foot & ankle surgery providers in Texas.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Houston
- Kevin VarnerHouston$1.1M
- Sherman NaglerHouston$602K
- Abdul NurudeenHouston$404K
- Orlando RiveraHouston$384K
- Brian LepowHouston$309K
- Yueh LeeHouston$95K
- William GranberryHouston$84K
- Nathaniel AlabiHouston$71K
- Jorge MatukHouston$45K
- William McGarveyKaty$3.5M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.