Has Travis Burns, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $73,950 in general payments to Travis Burns, MD across 178 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Travis Burns, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Travis Burns, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Travis Burns, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · San Antonio, TXNPI 1487678702

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $50,588 of the $73,950 with a category attached, or 68.4%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 61.6% of it on its own, with 25 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $19,499 and has fallen 78.0% since, to $4,298 in 2025. Among orthopaedic 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.

$73,950in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 178 payments — averaging $415.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$46K
Encore Medical, LP$9K
FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc$6K
Arthrex$4K
Catalyst Orthoscience$3K
Linvatec Corporation$1K
plus $5K from 20 others

$4,232in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $705.33 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.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$4K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$50,58868%
Speaking & faculty fees$6,0508%
Travel & lodging$10,61814%
Food & beverage$5,7268%
Education$3250%
Gifts$6441%

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
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	37	$45,583
Encore Medical, LP	32	$8,801
FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc	6	$6,101
Arthrex	4	$4,013
Catalyst Orthoscience	7	$2,844
Linvatec Corporation	6	$1,271
Stryker(2 entities)	8	$1,042
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	1	$1,024
Mission Medical Distribution, LLC	9	$1,023
Johnson & Johnson	17	$667
Exactech, Inc.	3	$379
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	12	$322
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	17	$187
Orthalign Inc	3	$185
Integrity Orthopaedics, Inc.	2	$170
Medacta USA, Inc.	1	$83
Smith+Nephew	2	$46
Medtronic	2	$36
Medinc Of Texas	1	$35
Vertex	1	$30
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	2	$30
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$23
BD	1	$19
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$14
Bioventus LLC	1	$13
Heraeus Medical, LLC.	1	$11

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.

IDEAL$40,338
HEALIX KNOTLESS PEEK$27,072
Gryphon Orthocord$24,632
GRYPHON$15,706
HEALIX$15,706
DJO SURGICAL$10,369
RIGIDLOOP$2,340
VAPR$2,340
CSR & R1 Reverse Total Shoulder Systems$1,266
R1 Reverse Total Shoulder$1,266
Archer 3D Software$1,266
LINVATEC HIP PRESERVATION SYSTEM$1,041
TRUESPAN$878
SIMPLICITI$769
DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$625
DJO Surgical Foundation Hip System$406
EQUINOXE$379
DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$146
DJO Surgical Match Point System$146
Integrity Orthopaedics$145

How this compares

$73,950 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$284,900

Medicare patients

447

Services billed

3,051

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	169	$1,973
Naproxen	150	$1,133
Celecoxib	16	$229
Tramadol Hcl	48	$153
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	16	$124
Gabapentin	19	$109
Meloxicam	24	$97
Amoxicillin	16	$12

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Michael WirthSan Antonio$4.5M
Ravi KariaSan Antonio$1.1M
Charles RockwoodSan Antonio$975K
Christopher ChaputSan Antonio$959K
Frank ButtacavoliSan Antonio$866K
Robert HartzlerSan Antonio$654K
Bernard MorreySan Antonio$639K
Animesh AgarwalSan Antonio$408K
Ralph GarzaSan Antonio$390K

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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.

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