Venkat Sethuraman, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Dallas, TXNPI 1659378305
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (39.8%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Spineology Inc. accounts for 92.1% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $12,539, more than ten times the $18 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $12,726.
Across 60 payments — averaging $221.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spineology Inc.$12K
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$281
- Augmedics Inc.$186
- Medtronic$156
- VGI Medical, LLC$93
- Medacta USA, Inc.$52
- plus $280 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,19739%
- Travel & lodging$5,28640%
- Food & beverage$2,63120%
- Entertainment$1651%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spineology Inc. | 32 | $12,232 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 5 | $281 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 5 | $186 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $156 |
| VGI Medical, LLC | 1 | $93 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Novapproach Spine, LLC | 1 | $47 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $36 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 3 | $34 |
| Misonix Inc | 2 | $30 |
| Stryker | 1 | $29 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Abbott | 1 | $24 |
| Vertex | 1 | $16 |
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
$13,279 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 207 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Texas.
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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 | 22 | $305 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 20 | $269 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 23 | $177 |
| Meloxicam | 30 | $99 |
| Pregabalin | 12 | $61 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Dallas
- Andrew ClavennaDallas$1.3M
- Sean Jones QuaidooDallas$550K
- William HotchkissDallas$510K
- Augustus RushDallas$140K
- Randall DryerAustin$2.9M
- Craig KuhnsAustin$2.4M
- David WimberleyHouston$2.2M
- Jeffrey PhelpsNorth Richland Hills$1.9M
- Eric WieserArlington$1.5M
- Ivan ChengKyle$1.2M
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.