Stephen Rush, MD
Trauma Surgery · Fort Worth, TXNPI 1720044860
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 29 payments — averaging $44.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$378
- Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$190
- Avanos Medical$183
- Covidien LP$109
- Medivance, Inc.$103
- Z-medica, LLC$69
- plus $248 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$343%
- Travel & lodging$28222%
- Food & beverage$96475%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 4 | $378 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 6 | $190 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $183 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $109 |
| Medivance, Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 2 | $69 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 3 | $49 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $45 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Merck | 2 | $29 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $23 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $22 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $17 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$276
- ON-Q* PUMP AND ACCESSORIES$150
- Situate$109
- BMD MEDIVANCE$103
How this compares
$1,280 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 108 trauma 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 trauma surgery in Fort Worth
- Tessa WoodsFort Worth$17K
- Leslie ReddellFort Worth$14K
- Matthew FultzFort Worth$3K
- David VillarrealFort Worth$3K
- Luis FernandezTyler$611K
- Julie RizzoFort Sam Houston$212K
- Billy MorganWaco$122K
- Laura PetreyDallas$82K
- Leo MercerWichita Falls$73K
- Sudeep BurmanAustin$72K
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.