Has Wayne Paullus, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,995 in general payments to Wayne Paullus, MD across 187 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 Wayne Paullus, 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 Wayne Paullus, 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.

Wayne Paullus, MD

Neurological Surgery · Amarillo, TXNPI 1386745321

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,995in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 187 payments — averaging $37.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$3K
Globus Medical$3K
Curiteva, Inc.$558
Medtronic$357
Stryker$96
MML US, Inc.$72
plus $100 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$270%
Travel & lodging$2,32533%
Food & beverage$4,55165%
Education$921%

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
Abbott	149	$3,286
Globus Medical	13	$2,526
Curiteva, Inc.	2	$558
Medtronic(2 entities)	13	$357
Stryker	2	$96
MML US, Inc.	3	$72
Aesculap, Inc.	2	$38
Irras USA, Inc.	1	$27
Ceribell, Inc.	1	$19
Argentum Medical	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

$6,995 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 582 neurological surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$293,152

Medicare patients

321

Services billed

1,111

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	132	$2,037
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	145	$1,448
Alendronate Sodium	114	$603
Methocarbamol	38	$423
Gabapentin	44	$384
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	26	$266
Pregabalin	19	$219
Methylprednisolone	26	$152
Tramadol Hcl	35	$148

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Amarillo

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Daniel PetersonAustin$5.8M
Daniel CurryHouston$3M
Peter KanGalveston$1.8M
Mirza BaigShenandoah$1.6M
Koijan KainthThe Woodlands$1.3M
Luis DuarteSan Angelo$1.2M
Douglas FoxAustin$948K
Richard MeyratDallas$883K
Adam LewisCorpus Christi$851K

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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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