Timothy Robinson, MD
Neurological Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1093133514
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (50.5%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 62.4% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for neurological surgery clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $3,746.
Across 42 payments — averaging $100.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- Medtronic$394
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$377
- Penumbra, Inc.$181
- Imperative Care, Inc$165
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$145
- plus $324 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$381%
- Travel & lodging$1,16127%
- Food & beverage$2,13350%
- Education$89221%
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 | 15 | $2,637 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 9 | $394 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $377 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $181 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 2 | $165 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $145 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $74 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $53 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $44 |
| Irras USA, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Amgen | 1 | $24 |
| Balt USA, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
How this compares
$4,224 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th 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.
Other neurological surgery in Houston
- Andrew RoeserHouston$660K
- Paul HolmanHouston$516K
- Taylor GistHouston$447K
- Meng HuangHouston$324K
- Laurence RhinesHouston$322K
- Omar TanweerHouston$254K
- Jeremy WangHouston$231K
- Alexander RopperHouston$208K
- Fangyi ZhangHouston$192K
- Ashwin ViswanathanHouston$185K
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.