Has William Abblitt, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $16,877 in general payments to William Abblitt, MD across 86 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 William Abblitt, 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 William Abblitt, 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.

William Abblitt, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Austin, TXNPI 1003235078

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — education (44.4%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Smith+Nephew accounts for 71.5% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $7,849 and has fallen 97.3% since, to $210 in 2025.

$16,877in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 86 payments — averaging $196.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$12K
Stryker$2K
Encore Medical, LP$2K
Johnson & Johnson$340
Exactech, Inc.$147
UCB, Inc.$131
plus $532 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,5009%
Travel & lodging$3,91723%
Food & beverage$3,96123%
Education$7,50044%

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
Smith+Nephew	31	$12,072
Stryker	29	$2,080
Encore Medical, LP	3	$1,576
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	5	$340
Exactech, Inc.	1	$147
UCB, Inc.	5	$131
Medacta USA, Inc.	2	$127
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$122
Davol Inc.	1	$104
Heraeus Medical, LLC.	3	$74
Amgen	3	$61
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	1	$29
Core Surgical Group	1	$14

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

$16,877 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 86 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$261,362

Medicare patients

515

Services billed

3,727

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
Meloxicam	324	$766
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	81	$680
Oxycodone Hcl	116	$503
Tramadol Hcl	139	$293
Diclofenac Sodium	39	$268
Methylprednisolone	43	$251
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	38	$236
Cefadroxil	40	$218
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	35	$176
Pregabalin	25	$109
Gabapentin	19	$84
Amoxicillin	16	$10

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Donald HohmanDallas$537K
Steven WeedenFort Worth$370K
Marcus FordFort Worth$296K
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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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