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

Melvyn Harrington

Orthopaedic Surgery Houston, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1851365258 CMS profile 219722

6620 Main St, Suite 1325, Baylor College Of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030

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General payments

$116,114

469 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Melvyn Harrington of Houston, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $116,114 across 469 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

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.

General payments for this record sit in the 93rd percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $2,383 31
2024 General $2,411 51
2023 General $4,724 72
2022 General $2,018 45
2021 General $35,502 81
2020 General $33,791 47
2019 General $35,285 142

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Melvyn Harrington
  • Orthopaedic Surgery median
  • Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Melvyn Harrington were reported at $2,383. Among 15,343 Orthopaedic Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $563 and the middle half received between $147 and $2,717.

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Year Melvyn Harrington Orthopaedic Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $35,285 $644 $140–$2,844 $163
2020 $33,791 $312 $75–$1,860 $114
2021 $35,502 $520 $117–$2,495 $132
2022 $2,018 $598 $128–$2,731 $149
2023 $4,724 $461 $128–$2,264 $160
2024 $2,411 $497 $134–$2,475 $164
2025 $2,383 $563 $147–$2,717 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $89,562 202 payments
  2. Medacta USA, Inc. $12,900 39 payments
  3. Stryker Corporation $8,229 148 payments
  4. ERMI Inc. $1,180 6 payments
  5. Conformis, Inc. $1,016 8 payments
  6. Heraeus Medical, LLC. $869 17 payments
  7. Consensus Orthopedics, Inc. $344 4 payments
  8. Smith+Nephew, Inc. $230 2 payments
  9. Davol Inc. $145 1 payment
  10. Ortho Development Corporation $144 1 payment
  11. Other $1,494 41 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $77,000 14 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $19,745 64 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $19,167 388 payments
  4. Gift $185 2 payments
  5. Education $17 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Hips-None $49,292 47 payments
  2. Absolute Bi-Polar Shoulder $7,500 1 payment
  3. ACA Screw Cup $7,500 2 payments
  4. MOTO UNI $6,111 2 payments
  5. AMISTEM $5,268 15 payments
  6. MAKO Knees, Hips $3,318 55 payments
  7. Surgical Product Portfolio $2,289 27 payments
  8. MAKO Knees, Hips $1,875 29 payments
  9. Surgical-Product Portfolio $1,045 14 payments
  10. iTotal CR, iTotal PS, iUni, Hip System $906 4 payments
  11. Other $12,647 244 payments

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

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 6 drugs

Part D claims

254

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$1,890

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

61%

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 11.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 103 $1,098
Acetaminophen-Codeine Acetaminophen With Codeine Brand 52 $338
Celecoxib Generic 36 $253
Diclofenac Sodium Generic 12 $102
Meloxicam Generic 39 $61
Ibuprofen Generic 12 $38

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 18,934 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 33 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$80,439

Of which drugs: $2,167

Medicare patients

246

Average age 74

Services billed

5,844

166 women, 80 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
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 75%
Diabetes 32%
Ischemic heart disease 27%
Chronic kidney disease 23%
Depression 21%
Osteoporosis 20%
Cancer 17%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 1 mg J1010 Office 45 4,120 $409
Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg J1030 Office 15 21 $76

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

469 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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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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