Sports Medicine in Texas
437 providers, $14,969,729 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $1,700.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays sports medicine clinicians in Texas
Across 318 sports medicine clinicians in Texas who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $36,823,421 in total — an average of $115,797 each, of which $98,396 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Thomas DeberardinoSan Antonio$3,515,893
- 2Robert ScheinbergDallas$2,194,289
- 3Walter LoweHouston$1,443,814
- 4Reed BartzSunnyvale$1,230,878
- 5James GregoryHouston$565,118
- 6John McDonaldAustin$498,699
- 7James McKinleyTyler$304,542
- 8Kelechi OkorohaDallas$296,876
- 9Leon PaulosPearland$288,937
- 10Marc LabbeThe Woodlands$237,701
- 11Todd MoenDallas$218,866
- 12Robert FullickHouston$136,608
- 13Patrick McCullochHouston$136,347
- 14Douglas ElenzAustin$128,665
- 15Jamie LynchSan Antonio$109,329
- 16Joshua HarrisHouston$108,699
- 17Gillian WooldridgeLeague City$105,995
- 18Robert DimeffDallas$105,804
- 19Joseph McNuttFrisco$103,912
- 20Sergio AlvaradoEl Paso$95,876
- 21Don BufordDallas$80,485
- 22Daniel CooperDallas$74,430
- 23Jayesh PatelTyler$69,397
- 24Kyle BorqueSugar Land$63,229
- 25Matthew WeldonCypress$61,773
- 26Robert BurgmeierDallas$60,356
- 27Evan MeeksPearland$59,797
- 28Mahmoud KhairDallas$59,181
- 29Bjorn BalldinSan Antonio$58,090
- 30Laura LinscheidSugar Land$55,372
- 31Dheeraj YalamanchiliDallas$54,030
- 32Jeffrey LueAllen$53,111
- 33Peter NeffCorpus Christi$51,729
- 34Jonathan QuinbyAddison$49,562
- 35Robert LindemanLeague City$46,581
- 36Bonnie GregorySugar Land$46,534
- 37Joshua RussellBaytown$45,762
- 38Shiv PatelBurleson$42,616
- 39Christopher MeltsakosSulphur Springs$41,999
- 40Skyler HoelscherSouthlake$39,621
- 41Ronak PatelSugar Land$39,053
- 42Adam HinesAllen$39,003
- 43Karim MeijerDallas$38,086
- 44John RobinsonSan Marcos$37,873
- 45Dean PapaliodisFort Worth$37,248
- 46Darryl ThomasAustin$37,166
- 47Harrison ScofieldSan Antonio$35,238
- 48Mark AdickesHouston$34,746
- 49Jordan TeelWichita Falls$34,649
- 50Stephen SierraWaco$34,218
- 51Stephen MathewWaxahachie$33,379
- 52Mufaddal GomberaHouston$32,704
- 53James WalkerAustin$30,906
- 54Mark MullerDallas$27,583
- 55Robert FlanneryHouston$27,310
- 56Abed AbdelazizLakeway$27,189
- 57Keith FishbeckNacogdoches$26,986
- 58David BrownHouston$26,758
- 59Ali AshrafDallas$26,480
- 60Ankur MehtaHouston$26,167