Sven Hochheimer, MD
Neurological Surgery · Wichita Falls, TXNPI 1629089685
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (37.8%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 35 manufacturers reported payments, led by Precision Spine, Inc. at 39.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $21,960, 2.2 times the $10,169 reported in 2019. Among neurological surgery clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 377 payments — averaging $208.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Precision Spine, Inc.$31K
- Medtronic$11K
- Globus Medical$10K
- Cerapedics Inc.$6K
- Spineology Inc.$4K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$3K
- plus $13K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$26,60934%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,0004%
- Travel & lodging$29,68238%
- Food & beverage$19,17124%
- Education$650%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 31 | $31,354 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 109 | $11,062 |
| Globus Medical | 32 | $10,178 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 19 | $5,995 |
| Spineology Inc. | 31 | $4,354 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 10 | $2,823 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 27 | $2,080 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 14 | $1,558 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 4 | $1,348 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $1,122 |
| Wenzel Spine, Inc. | 3 | $1,114 |
| Stryker | 13 | $997 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 6 | $981 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 4 | $672 |
| Abbott | 24 | $442 |
| Choice Spine, LLC | 4 | $433 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 2 | $317 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 6 | $307 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $244 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 3 | $153 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $130 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Atlas Spine, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $119 |
| Natus Medical Incorporated | 1 | $77 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 2 | $77 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $73 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 1 | $63 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $44 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $26 |
| Pylant Medical | 1 | $24 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Aesculap, 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.
- Dakota ACDF System$14,658
- MD Vue Lateral Access System$14,541
- MD VUE LATERAL ACCESS$12,557
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$12,451
- Excelsius - GPS$4,887
- ANTERIOR CERVICAL INTERBODY FUSION DEVICE$2,819
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$2,759
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$2,319
- FORTIFY$1,920
- Excelsius Robotics System$1,810
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$1,504
- i-FACTOR Putty$1,500
- Other - Miscellaneous$1,321
- SPINAL IMPLANT$1,304
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$1,141
- Varilift$1,095
- CLYDESDALE$1,050
- COUGAR$868
- MazorX - Renaissance$835
- Palisade Pedicle Screw System$796
How this compares
$78,527 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 582 neurological 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 123 | $1,282 |
| Lidocaine | 11 | $400 |
| Methocarbamol | 17 | $326 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 16 | $246 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Wichita Falls
- Koijan KainthThe Woodlands$1.3M
- Luis DuarteSan Angelo$1.2M
- Douglas FoxAustin$948K
- Richard MeyratDallas$883K
- Adam LewisCorpus Christi$792K
- Arnold VardimanSan Antonio$687K
- Andrew RoeserHouston$660K
- Scott RobertsonRound Rock$606K
- Sabatino BiancoArlington$564K
- Rebecca StachniakPlano$561K
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.