Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Daniel Peterson

Neurological Surgery Austin, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1518027366 CMS profile 249516

3003 Bee Caves Rd Ste 201, Austin, TX 78746

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General payments

$442,287

905 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$22,609

Paid to them · 9 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$34,339,156

21 holdings reported · through program year 2025

Research they led as principal investigator

$94,634 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2020–2025

Through program year 2025, Daniel Peterson of Austin, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $442,287 across 905 general payments and $22,609 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $94,634 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $34,339,156 across 21 holdings.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 97th percentile of Neurological Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

16 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $130,425 123
2024 General $131,245 134
2023 General $125,879 115
2023 Research $16,752 7
2022 General $42,429 139
2022 Research $5,857 2
2021 General $5,393 104
2020 General $1,497 73
2019 General $5,419 217
2025 Ownership $5,266,281 3
2024 Ownership $5,266,281 3
2023 Ownership $5,266,281 3
2022 Ownership $4,527,986 3
2021 Ownership $4,527,986 3
2020 Ownership $4,527,986 3
2019 Ownership $4,956,355 3

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Daniel Peterson
  • Neurological Surgery median
  • Middle half of Neurological Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Daniel Peterson were reported at $130,425. Among 5,467 Neurological Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $596 and the middle half received between $159 and $3,102.

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Year Daniel Peterson Neurological Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $5,419 $582 $138–$3,006 $163
2020 $1,497 $294 $76–$2,174 $114
2021 $5,393 $387 $105–$2,432 $132
2022 $42,429 $542 $139–$2,989 $149
2023 $125,879 $534 $145–$2,697 $160
2024 $131,245 $574 $155–$3,046 $164
2025 $130,425 $596 $159–$3,102 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Alafair Biosciences,Inc. $387,288 170 payments
  2. Retropsoas Technologies, LLC $9,433 12 payments
  3. Abbott Laboratories $9,075 327 payments
  4. Cerapedics, Inc. $7,747 8 payments
  5. Biotronik Inc. $6,237 4 payments
  6. 4WEB, Inc. $5,966 12 payments
  7. BIOTRONIK NRO, Inc. $5,425 4 payments
  8. Boston Scientific Corporation $4,852 250 payments
  9. Spinal Elements, Inc. $1,259 17 payments
  10. 7D Surgical Inc. $1,057 8 payments
  11. Other $3,948 93 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $397,912 37 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $29,609 825 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $14,041 32 payments
  4. Gift $350 2 payments
  5. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $232 2 payments
  6. Entertainment $125 5 payments
  7. Education $18 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. VersaWrap $387,105 159 payments
  2. I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT $7,572 6 payments
  3. SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM $5,966 12 payments
  4. Prospera $5,449 5 payments
  5. PROCLAIM Neuromodulation $1,749 58 payments
  6. GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT $1,287 90 payments
  7. Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs $1,229 64 payments
  8. PROCLAIM Neuromodulation $1,188 13 payments
  9. Medical Devices $1,159 16 payments
  10. Proclaim IPG $1,122 33 payments
  11. Other $11,876 413 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Bioventus LLC $22,609 9 payments

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 9 drugs

Part D claims

677

Median for Neurosurgery: 83

Drug cost

$13,429

Median for Neurosurgery: $872

Branded share of claims

46.8%

Median for Neurosurgery: 16.5%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Movantik Naloxegol Oxalate Brand 21 $8,501
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 242 $2,304
Methocarbamol Generic 190 $900
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 54 $690
Gabapentin Generic 52 $507
Meloxicam Generic 30 $186
Tramadol Hcl Generic 50 $137
Methylprednisolone Generic 25 $103
Pregabalin Generic 13 $103

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 2,779 Part D prescribers listed as Neurosurgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 55 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$179,806

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

311

Average age 72

Services billed

871

148 women, 163 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
Arthritis 75%
High blood pressure 73%
Ischemic heart disease 29%
Depression 26%
Diabetes 23%
Atrial fibrillation 16%
Chronic kidney disease 16%
Cancer 14%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

914 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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