---
title: What industry pays physicians in Texas (CMS Open Payments 2024)
state: Texas
program_year: 2024
general_payments: 203769385
physicians: 82962
source: CMS — Open Payments (Physician Payments Sunshine Act), program year 2024
sourceId: src:cms:open-payments:py2024
---

# Industry payments to physicians — Texas (2024)

In Texas, drug and device makers reported **$203,769,385** in general payments to **82,962** covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for program year 2024 (mean $2,456 each), plus $1,032,753,806 tied to research and $78,623,131 in ownership interests.

**A payment is a disclosed financial tie, not proof of wrongdoing** — many are research grants, consulting fees, or device royalties. Transparency, not a verdict.

## Top specialties

| Specialty | Total | Physicians | Mean per physician |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Orthopaedic Surgery | $30,251,824 | 1,042 | $29,032 |
| Dermatology | $8,160,350 | 864 | $9,445 |
| Psychiatry | $6,857,225 | 1,024 | $6,697 |
| Gastroenterology | $6,731,766 | 1,089 | $6,182 |
| Medical Oncology | $6,209,975 | 387 | $16,046 |
| Family | $5,930,797 | 10,016 | $592 |
| Physician Assistant | $5,501,985 | 4,996 | $1,101 |
| Surgery | $5,235,921 | 1,244 | $4,209 |
| Ophthalmology | $5,057,701 | 1,019 | $4,963 |
| Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism | $5,021,327 | 489 | $10,269 |
| Hematology & Oncology | $4,753,197 | 675 | $7,042 |
| Neurology | $4,698,924 | 834 | $5,634 |

## Highest-paid physicians (general payments)

| Physician | Specialty | Total | Top payer |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Stephen Burkhart | Orthopaedic Surgery | $17,332,176 | Arthrex, Inc. |
| Kirby Hitt | Orthopaedic Surgery | $1,523,880 | Stryker Corporation |
| Robert Graham | Orthopaedic Surgery | $1,309,785 | Stryker Corporation |
| Stefan Kreuzer | Orthopaedic Surgery | $1,196,056 | Stryker Corporation |
| Rakesh Jain | Psychiatry | $1,147,191 | Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. |
| Huda Zoghbi | Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology | $881,253 | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. |
| Eugene Curry | Foot and Ankle Surgery | $873,212 | Arthrex, Inc. |
| William Mcgarvey | Foot and Ankle Surgery | $868,685 | Stryker Corporation |
| Joseph Goldstein | Clinical Genetics (M.D.) | $829,671 | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. |
| Michael Brown | Gastroenterology | $825,187 | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. |
| Cory Collinge | Orthopaedic Trauma | $823,532 | DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. |
| Antonia Chen | Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery | $774,353 | Stryker Corporation |
| Alpesh Desai | Dermatology | $743,914 | Skye Orthobiologics LLC |
| John Fordtran | Gastroenterology | $705,177 | Affordable Pharmaceuticals, LLC |
| Richard Jones | Orthopaedic Surgery | $688,524 | DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. |
| Thomas Deberardino | Sports Medicine | $668,970 | Arthrex, Inc. |
| Thomas Edwards | Orthopaedic Surgery | $640,504 | ENCORE MEDICAL, LP |
| Roy Herbst | Medical Oncology | $586,664 | Immunocore Limited |
| Moshe Levy | Medical Oncology | $566,834 | E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. |
| Craig Kuhns | Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine | $533,746 | Alphatec Spine, Inc |
| Gabor Racz | Interventional Pain Medicine | $504,706 | Epimed International, Inc |
| Edward Lain | Dermatology | $500,230 | UCB, Inc. |
| Martin Guerrero | Psychiatry | $497,858 | Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
| Sanjay Chabra | Rheumatology | $497,213 | Amgen Inc. |
| Suresh Ratnam | Medical Oncology | $490,034 | AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP |

RECORDED CMS Open Payments amounts/counts; totals, means, and rankings are DERIVED. A disclosure record — not evidence of improper influence, not a measure of physician quality, not advice. To verify a physician, search openpaymentsdata.cms.gov. Source: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/

Structured data: `/care/open-payments/tx.jsonld` · National: `/care/open-payments`