Thomas Edwards, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1528056033
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 827 payments — averaging $5158.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Encore Medical, LP$3M
- DJO, LLC$597K
- Stryker$490K
- Responsive Arthroscopy Inc$57K
- Smith+Nephew$46K
- Xiros Limited$44K
- plus $74K from 14 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $625.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Encore Medical, LP$625
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,873,07369%
- Consulting fees$1,199,20329%
- Speaking & faculty fees$19,7310%
- Travel & lodging$47,8791%
- Food & beverage$9,7510%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Encore Medical, LP | 664 | $2,957,184 |
| DJO, LLC | 32 | $597,485 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 30 | $490,103 |
| Responsive Arthroscopy Inc | 18 | $57,113 |
| Smith+Nephew | 26 | $46,018 |
| Xiros Limited | 5 | $44,000 |
| UOC USA Inc | 20 | $39,794 |
| Insight Medical Systems, Inc. | 15 | $29,256 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $3,250 |
| Xiros Inc | 3 | $464 |
| Integrity Orthopaedics, Inc. | 2 | $221 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $179 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 1 | $162 |
| Azurmeds, Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $101 |
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 1 | $97 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $70 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $64 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $64 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $47 |
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.
- DJO SURGICAL$4,566,970
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$628,048
- AEQUALIS$437,939
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$384,590
- PROCARE$293,002
- DONJOY$255,448
- DJO Surgical CLP Hip System$155,025
- DJO Surgical Turon Modular Shoulder System$94,169
- DJO Surgical Match Point System$91,332
- DJO Surgical Cobalt HV Bone Cement$81,981
- DJO Surgical Discovery Elbow System$81,291
- Responsive Arthroscopy Devices$56,299
- AIRCAST Bracing & Supports$29,352
- PROCARE Bracing & Supports$29,352
- ARVIS$29,256
- System One$15,142
- Tru Axis$13,550
- Accu-pass$12,000
- Biceptor$11,250
- MAX LOCK$9,507
How this compares
$4,265,813 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 99 | $1,217 |
| Meloxicam | 180 | $502 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 74 | $415 |
| Tramadol Hcl-AcetaminophenTramadol Hcl/Acetaminophen | 42 | $243 |
| Methylprednisolone | 17 | $99 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 12 | $80 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 13 | $75 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 21 | $65 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Houston
- Stefan KreuzerHouston$7M
- Tiffany HuynhHouston$4.6M
- Stephen IncavoHouston$4.3M
- Adam FreedhandHouston$1.8M
- Jeffrey KozakHouston$1.1M
- Travis HansonHouston$1M
- David VanderweideHouston$741K
- Thomas TanousHouston$698K
- Alan RechterHouston$605K
- Ugonna IhekweazuHouston$544K
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.