Steven Hammerman
Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1649268236
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 43 payments — averaging $153.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medinc Of Texas$2K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$1K
- Stryker$283
- Integrity Orthopaedics, Inc.$221
- FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc$162
- plus $218 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,73126%
- Food & beverage$2,54839%
- Education$2,33335%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medinc Of Texas | 3 | $2,484 |
| Smith+Nephew | 22 | $2,017 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 9 | $1,228 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 3 | $283 |
| Integrity Orthopaedics, Inc. | 2 | $221 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 1 | $162 |
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 2 | $111 |
| Xiros Inc | 1 | $107 |
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.
- Shoulder System$529
- Latarjet System$514
- Q-FIX$514
- Mini-Open Latarjet$488
- AMIStem H Femoral Stems$448
- Regeneten$363
- MULTIFIX S$219
- Integrity Orthopaedics$175
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$158
- BLUEPRINT PSI SYSTEM$117
- PITCH-PATCH$107
- Coblation Wands$106
- Healicoil$106
How this compares
$6,612 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,830 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 surgery in Houston
- Funda MericHouston$20.6M
- Isidoro WienerHouston$850K
- Mark HobeikaHouston$462K
- Joseph CoselliHouston$382K
- James SuliburkHouston$161K
- Richard KnightHouston$147K
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Lloyd StegemannCorpus Christi$1.9M
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
- Erik WilsonBellaire$1.2M
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.