Wayne Burkhead, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Dallas, TXNPI 1073533774
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,012,634 of the $1,153,592 with a category attached, or 87.8%. Stryker accounts for 84.6% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 157 payments — averaging $7347.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$975K
- FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc$128K
- Techmah Medical, LLC$33K
- Limacorporate S.p.a.$12K
- Lima USA, Inc.$3K
- Arthrex$1K
- plus $873 from 11 others
Across 8 payments — averaging $1556.25 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.
- FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc$12K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,012,63488%
- Consulting fees$110,25110%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,5000%
- Travel & lodging$22,0152%
- Food & beverage$5,2310%
- Education$9620%
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(2 entities) | 63 | $975,432 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 14 | $128,466 |
| Techmah Medical, LLC | 18 | $32,518 |
| Limacorporate S.p.a. | 7 | $11,945 |
| Lima USA, Inc. | 14 | $3,174 |
| Arthrex | 14 | $1,184 |
| Pylant Medical | 6 | $267 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $171 |
| Amgen | 9 | $145 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $43 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $23 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Acacia Pharma Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$873,147
- AEQUALIS$101,270
- SmartSpace Shoulder$29,156
- SMR$11,377
- humelock reversed shoulder$7,498
- Smart SPACE$3,250
- Product Portfolio$2,500
- SMR Shoulder$1,000
- INSPACE$427
- BLUEPRINT PSI SYSTEM$244
- BioBrace 23mm$171
- OMEGA$156
- TACTOSET$104
How this compares
$1,153,592 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Calcitonin-SalmonCalcitonin,salmon,synthetic | 62 | $3,373 |
| OxycontinOxycodone Hcl | 12 | $810 |
| Gabapentin | 113 | $712 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 25 | $280 |
| Methocarbamol | 46 | $257 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 42 | $236 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 20 | $188 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 32 | $125 |
| Ibuprofen | 11 | $78 |
| Meloxicam | 60 | $74 |
| Prednisone | 40 | $57 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Dallas
- Richard JonesDallas$6.3M
- James BrodskyDallas$2.5M
- Sumant KrishnanDallas$1.9M
- Bradford WaddellDallas$325K
- Jay MabreyDallas$310K
- Eddie LoDallas$276K
- Clinton BellDallas$261K
- Jesus ReyDallas$227K
- Stephen BurkhartSan Antonio$185.3M
- Kirby HittTemple$9.1M
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.