Tyler Caton
Orthopaedic Surgery · Fort Worth, TXNPI 1881089142
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (51.3%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 44.9% of the total.
Across 86 payments — averaging $95.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$4K
- Stryker$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$923
- Pylant Medical$761
- Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.$155
- Si-bone, Inc.$80
- plus $150 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,97424%
- Travel & lodging$2,02925%
- Food & beverage$4,21551%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 10 | $3,693 |
| Stryker | 38 | $2,457 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 19 | $923 |
| Pylant Medical | 11 | $761 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $155 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $80 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $78 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $72 |
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
$8,219 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Fort Worth
- Robert SchmidtFort Worth$2M
- Stephen BurkhartSan Antonio$185.3M
- Kirby HittTemple$9.1M
- Robert GrahamAustin$6.3M
- Richard JonesDallas$6.3M
- Stefan KreuzerHouston$6.2M
- Michael WirthSan Antonio$4.5M
- Stephen IncavoHouston$4.3M
- Thomas EdwardsHouston$4.1M
- James BrodskyDallas$2.5M
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.