Todd Trask, MD
Neurological Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1710905393
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,523 of the $10,033 with a category attached, or 75.0%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 29.6% of the total.
Across 105 payments — averaging $95.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$1K
- Baxter Healthcare$1K
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$479
- Monteris Medical Corporation$306
- plus $1K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,51025%
- Food & beverage$7,52375%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 41 | $2,974 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 16 | $2,445 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 9 | $1,361 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 12 | $1,232 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 4 | $479 |
| Monteris Medical Corporation | 3 | $306 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $244 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $197 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 2 | $145 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 2 | $135 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $124 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $104 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $73 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $50 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
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.
- Pulse$1,654
- FLOSEAL$1,118
- Other - Miscellaneous$1,030
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$844
- STRATA$621
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$329
- Neuroblate$295
- CAVUX Cervical Cage$288
- DTRAX Spinal System$288
- ALLY Bone Screw$288
- BIOLOGIX Allograft Bone$288
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$171
- Excelsius - GPS$147
- iGA$144
- MLX$140
- 7D Surgical System$132
- O-ARM$109
- PRODISC C VIVO$104
How this compares
$10,033 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th 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 | 48 | $731 |
| Gabapentin | 40 | $518 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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.