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

Michael George

Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery Houston, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1235110222 CMS profile 10101

17270 Red Oak Dr, Suite 200, Houston, TX 77090

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General payments

$13,370

118 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, Michael George of Houston, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $13,370 across 118 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 82nd percentile of Pediatric 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 $1,392 6
2024 General $631 2
2023 General $217 5
2022 General $223 10
2021 General $7,709 41
2020 General $2,475 26
2019 General $723 28

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Michael George were reported at $1,392. Among 495 Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $271 and the middle half received between $89 and $1,158.

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Year Michael George Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $723 $355 $117–$1,889 $163
2020 $2,475 $290 $62–$1,625 $114
2021 $7,709 $628 $75–$2,400 $132
2022 $223 $427 $115–$2,170 $149
2023 $217 $265 $98–$1,497 $160
2024 $631 $255 $84–$1,694 $164
2025 $1,392 $271 $89–$1,158 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Smith+Nephew, Inc. $6,956 12 payments
  2. Integra LifeSciences Corporation $2,115 6 payments
  3. Medacta USA, Inc. $2,050 6 payments
  4. Stryker Corporation $873 19 payments
  5. Flexion Therapeutics, Inc. $456 31 payments
  6. Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. $291 15 payments
  7. Catalyst OrthoScience $130 2 payments
  8. DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $108 7 payments
  9. Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $45 1 payment
  10. Globus Medical, Inc. $33 1 payment
  11. Other $312 18 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $8,925 6 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $3,263 106 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $932 5 payments
  4. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $250 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. TITAN Shoulder $3,056 3 payments
  2. FREEDOM WRIST $1,832 5 payments
  3. TITAN-SHOULDER $1,832 5 payments
  4. EXTERNAL FIXATION SYSTEM $1,832 5 payments
  5. REVERSE SHOULDER $1,500 1 payment
  6. Mecta $1,200 1 payment
  7. Mecta-C Cervical Cages $600 1 payment
  8. Zilretta $456 31 payments
  9. TSSM - TOTAL SHOULDER SYSTEM METAL $332 4 payments
  10. PYRO MCP $332 4 payments
  11. Other $5,077 87 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 · 17 drugs

Part D claims

2,320

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$40,357

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

33.8%

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
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 140 $25,693
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 533 $5,715
Celecoxib Generic 380 $4,426
Meloxicam Generic 318 $929
Ondansetron Hcl Generic 259 $838
Acetaminophen-Codeine Acetaminophen With Codeine Brand 98 $786
Tramadol Hcl Generic 199 $562
Gabapentin Generic 165 $532
Nabumetone Generic 16 $299
Naproxen Generic 69 $237

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 17 counted.

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 · 47 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$299,737

Of which drugs: $81,437

Medicare patients

477

Average age 74

Services billed

13,448

308 women, 169 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%
Ischemic heart disease 32%
Diabetes 31%
Chronic kidney disease 24%
Depression 22%
Atrial fibrillation 17%
Cancer 16%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Hyaluronan or derivative, gel-one, for intra-articular injection, per dose J7326 Office 38 72 $29,191
Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg J0702 Office 241 1,909 $10,252
Hyaluronan or derivative, trivisc, for intra-articular injection, 1 mg J7329 Office 17 1,500 $7,955
Hyaluronan or derivative, durolane, for intra-articular injection, 1 mg J7318 Office 16 1,560 $7,294
Hyaluronan or derivative, hyalgan, supartz or visco-3, for intra-articular injection, per dose J7321 Office 19 79 $4,358
Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 Office 18 128 $98

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

118 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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