Sumant Krishnan, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Dallas, TXNPI 1013939487
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,766,395 of the $1,901,110 with a category attached, or 92.9%. Stryker accounts for 67.7% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $461,034 and has fallen 75.5% since, to $113,003 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 119 payments — averaging $15,976 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$1.3M
- DJO, LLC$484K
- Restor3d, Inc.$129K
- Limacorporate S.p.a.$275
- Smith+Nephew$125
- Shoulder Innovations, Inc.$60
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,766,39593%
- Consulting fees$120,0026%
- Travel & lodging$8,9200%
- Food & beverage$5,7930%
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) | 38 | $1,287,953 |
| DJO, LLC | 25 | $483,610 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 51 | $129,088 |
| Limacorporate S.p.a. | 3 | $275 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $125 |
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 1 | $60 |
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.
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$712,754
- AEQUALIS$574,932
- PROCARE$293,002
- DONJOY$156,314
- PROCARE Bracing & Supports$29,352
- AIRCAST Bracing & Supports$29,352
- NA$131
- SMR$125
- NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$118
How this compares
$1,901,110 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Minocycline Hcl | 34 | $1,093 |
| Calcitonin-SalmonCalcitonin,salmon,synthetic | 21 | $1,056 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 120 | $990 |
| Etodolac | 23 | $593 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 30 | $568 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 25 | $442 |
| Mupirocin | 42 | $282 |
| Methylprednisolone | 39 | $246 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 33 | $210 |
| Methocarbamol | 26 | $127 |
| Cephalexin | 41 | $73 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Dallas
- Richard JonesDallas$6.3M
- James BrodskyDallas$2.5M
- Wayne BurkheadDallas$1.2M
- Bradford WaddellDallas$325K
- Jay MabreyDallas$310K
- Eddie LoDallas$276K
- Clinton BellDallas$261K
- Jesus ReyDallas$227K
- Stephen BurkhartSan Antonio$185.3M
- Kirby HittTemple$9.1M
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.