Stephen Pearce
Orthopaedic Surgery · Austin, TXNPI 1922000504
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $3,554 of the $5,287 with a category attached, or 67.2%. Encore Medical, LP accounts for 67.5% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,176 and has fallen 92.7% since, to $159 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $4,671.
Across 89 payments — averaging $59.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Encore Medical, LP$4K
- Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$729
- Stryker$187
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$145
- Onkos Surgical, Inc.$129
- Exactech, Inc.$89
- plus $438 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,55467%
- Food & beverage$1,73233%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Encore Medical, LP | 24 | $3,569 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $729 |
| Stryker | 4 | $187 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 25 | $145 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $129 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $89 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $54 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $52 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 2 | $48 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 11 | $45 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $40 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $26 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $24 |
| Terumo BCT, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Amgen | 1 | $18 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 2 | $14 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$5,287 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Austin
- Robert GrahamAustin$6.3M
- Eric HeinrichAustin$907K
- David DodginAustin$704K
- Stephen BurkhartSan Antonio$185.3M
- Kirby HittTemple$9.1M
- Richard JonesDallas$6.3M
- Stefan KreuzerHouston$6.2M
- Michael WirthSan Antonio$4.5M
- Stephen IncavoHouston$4.3M
- Thomas EdwardsHouston$4.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.