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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $510,149 in general payments to William Hotchkiss, MD across 558 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 Hotchkiss, 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 Hotchkiss, 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 Hotchkiss, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Dallas, TXNPI 1568781250

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $313,888 of the $510,149 with a category attached, or 61.5%. Medtronic accounts for 91.7% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $115,977, 2.7 times the $42,906 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$510,149in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 558 payments — averaging $914.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$468K
Wound Management Technologies, Inc$23K
Sanara Medtech Inc.$12K
Tyber Medical, LLC$4K
Ulrich Medical USA, Inc.$1K
4web, Inc.$1K
plus $2K from 11 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$152,29030%
Speaking & faculty fees$313,88862%
Travel & lodging$30,8036%
Food & beverage$13,1533%
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
Medtronic(2 entities)	506	$467,674
Wound Management Technologies, Inc	8	$22,817
Sanara Medtech Inc.	2	$11,800
Tyber Medical, LLC	1	$3,500
Ulrich Medical USA, Inc.	3	$1,188
4web, Inc.	1	$1,000
Titan Spine, LLC	1	$750
Arthrex	12	$581
Evolution Spine, LLC	1	$218
Limacorporate S.p.a.	1	$192
Pylant Medical	8	$156
Stryker	4	$104
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	4	$74
Amgen(2 entities)	2	$33
Johnson & Johnson	2	$24
Acuity Surgical Devices, LLC	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.

PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$115,458
CLYDESDALE PTC SPINAL SYSTEM$44,730
CLYDESDALE$38,680
CellerateRx$34,572
ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$29,638
CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$29,572
MAZOR X SYSTEM$27,816
CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$21,234
SOVEREIGN$6,345
Mazor X Stealth Edition$4,940
DIVERGENCE-L ANTERIOR/OBLIQUE LUMBAR FUSION SYSTEM$4,044
X02-04 LLIF Disc Prep$3,500
X02-05 Anteralign Coverplate$3,500
STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$3,035
CD HORIZON$2,829
ENDOSKELETON TL NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$1,788
UNID_PASS$1,506
SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$1,000
DIVERGENCE-L$810
nanoLOCK$750

How this compares

$510,149 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 207 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$183,615

Medicare patients

288

Services billed

952

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	53	$577
Methylprednisolone	35	$235
Gabapentin	36	$211
Methocarbamol	25	$157
Tramadol Hcl	11	$29

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Dallas

Andrew ClavennaDallas$1.3M
Sean Jones QuaidooDallas$550K
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
Stephen TolhurstFlower Mound$1.1M

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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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