Steven Walters, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Austin, TXNPI 1700808110
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 90 payments — averaging $36.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$1K
- Abbott$295
- Core Surgical Group$261
- Nevro Corp.$255
- Medtronic$174
- Bioventus LLC$165
- plus $706 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,20698%
- Education$592%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker(2 entities) | 40 | $1,410 |
| Abbott | 9 | $295 |
| Core Surgical Group | 2 | $261 |
| Nevro Corp. | 10 | $255 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $174 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $165 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 2 | $131 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $106 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 2 | $48 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $47 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $36 |
| Sebela Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $27 |
| Axogen | 1 | $23 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $22 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $21 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $16 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$308
- CITREFIX$291
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$175
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$174
- NONE$146
- ALLOWRAP$146
- PROCLAIM$144
- Exogen Ultrasound Bone Healing System$141
- N/A$134
- PROSTEP MICA$134
- NA$134
- EASYFUSE$134
- 7 X 23MM CITRELOCK IMPLANT$134
- ANCHORAGE$125
- Senza$116
- Cook Medical Peripheral Intervention$106
How this compares
$3,265 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 684 foot & ankle 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Ciclopirox | 15 | $352 |
| Meloxicam | 68 | $171 |
| Methylprednisolone | 16 | $128 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 19 | $94 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 14 | $89 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Austin
- Mark DaltonAustin$4.1M
- Mark RobsonAustin$957K
- Craig ThomajanAustin$145K
- Andrew EbertAustin$82K
- Pedro CosculluelaAustin$69K
- Richard PollakSan Antonio$6.1M
- Joseph CaporussoMcAllen$6M
- William McGarveyKaty$3.5M
- Eugene CurryDallas$3.1M
- Chad HowzeSan Antonio$2.4M
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.