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Industry payments to physicians · Texas · 2024

Texas

In Texas, drug and device makers reported $204M in general payments to 82,962 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $2,456 each — plus $1.03B tied to research and $79M in ownership interests.

A payment is a disclosed financial tie, not proof of wrongdoing — many are research grants, consulting fees, or royalties a physician earns on a device they invented. Transparency, not a verdict.
$204M
general payments
82,962
covered recipients paid
$2,456
mean per physician

Top specialties in Texas

General payments by specialty; the figure on the right is the average per physician.

Orthopaedic Surgery $30M
Dermatology $8M
Psychiatry $7M
Gastroenterology $7M
Medical Oncology $6M
Family $6M
Physician Assistant $6M
Surgery $5M
Ophthalmology $5M
Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism $5M
Hematology & Oncology $5M
Neurology $5M

Highest-paid physicians in Texas

By total general payments, 2024 — largely device royalties to inventor-physicians.

Stephen Burkhart Orthopaedic Surgery · San Antonio · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $17M
Kirby Hitt Orthopaedic Surgery · Temple · top payer: Stryker Corporation $2M
Robert Graham Orthopaedic Surgery · Austin · top payer: Stryker Corporation $1M
Stefan Kreuzer Orthopaedic Surgery · Houston · top payer: Stryker Corporation $1M
Rakesh Jain Psychiatry · Lake Jackson · top payer: Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. $1M
Huda Zoghbi Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology · Houston · top payer: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $881,253
Eugene Curry Foot and Ankle Surgery · Dallas · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $873,212
William Mcgarvey Foot and Ankle Surgery · Katy · top payer: Stryker Corporation $868,685
Joseph Goldstein Clinical Genetics (M.D.) · Dallas · top payer: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $829,671
Michael Brown Gastroenterology · Dallas · top payer: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $825,187
Cory Collinge Orthopaedic Trauma · Fort Worth · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $823,532
Antonia Chen Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Dallas · top payer: Stryker Corporation $774,353
Alpesh Desai Dermatology · Houston · top payer: Skye Orthobiologics LLC $743,914
John Fordtran Gastroenterology · Dallas · top payer: Affordable Pharmaceuticals, LLC $705,177
Richard Jones Orthopaedic Surgery · Dallas · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $688,524
Thomas Deberardino Sports Medicine · San Antonio · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $668,970
Thomas Edwards Orthopaedic Surgery · Houston · top payer: ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $640,504
Roy Herbst Medical Oncology · Houston · top payer: Immunocore Limited $586,664
Moshe Levy Medical Oncology · Dallas · top payer: E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $566,834
Craig Kuhns Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Austin · top payer: Alphatec Spine, Inc $533,746
Gabor Racz Interventional Pain Medicine · Lubbock · top payer: Epimed International, Inc $504,706
Edward Lain Dermatology · Austin · top payer: UCB, Inc. $500,230
Martin Guerrero Psychiatry · El Paso · top payer: Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. $497,858
Sanjay Chabra Rheumatology · El Paso · top payer: Amgen Inc. $497,213
Suresh Ratnam Medical Oncology · Mcallen · top payer: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $490,034

RECORDED — CMS Open Payments figures for program year 2024. DERIVED — state totals, per-physician means, and rankings are sums over those records.

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What this is — and is not

A disclosure record of industry–physician financial ties in Texas — not evidence that any payment influenced care, not a measure of a physician's quality, and not advice about your own doctor. To verify a specific physician, search CMS Open Payments directly.