Vinay Hosuru Siddappa
Orthopaedic Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1649641960
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 296 payments — averaging $88.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$11K
- Zimmer Biomet$5K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$2K
- Medinc Of Texas$2K
- Arthrex$2K
- Acumed LLC$2K
- plus $2K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$11,93746%
- Food & beverage$11,85145%
- Education$2,3489%
- Entertainment$160%
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 | 116 | $10,573 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 74 | $5,175 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 27 | $2,433 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 6 | $2,257 |
| Arthrex | 11 | $1,754 |
| Acumed LLC | 11 | $1,673 |
| Axogen | 16 | $614 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 3 | $382 |
| ERMI LLC | 3 | $350 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $185 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $149 |
| Microport Orthopedics Inc | 7 | $144 |
| Globus Medical | 5 | $119 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $86 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $46 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $44 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $32 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Argentum Medical | 1 | $16 |
| Imbed Biosciences Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $15 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $7 |
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.
- MAKO$4,958
- GMK SPHERE$1,417
- OsteoMed$1,330
- Oxford-Knees$908
- Trabecular Metal (TM) Ankle$893
- Oxford$870
- Persona$766
- INBONE$466
- PANGEA$450
- PRO$447
- APEX 3D$245
- Avenir$214
- GMK Sphere Revision System$148
- ACUMED$145
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$140
- AMISTEM$122
- Portfolio$120
How this compares
$26,152 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Houston
- Stefan KreuzerHouston$7M
- Tiffany HuynhHouston$4.6M
- Stephen IncavoHouston$4.3M
- Thomas EdwardsHouston$4.3M
- Adam FreedhandHouston$1.8M
- Jeffrey KozakHouston$1.1M
- Travis HansonHouston$1M
- David VanderweideHouston$741K
- Thomas TanousHouston$698K
- Alan RechterHouston$605K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.