Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-06-30 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

CARSON L FAIRBANKS

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Orthopaedic Surgery Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine

NPI
1528324118
CMS profile
720155
Location
FORT WORTH, TX

General Payments · PY2019–2025

$6,799.15

  • Reported across 74 records
  • CMS publication 2026-06-30

Latest program year · PY2025

$1,023.34

11 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Consulting Fee $675.00 1
Food and Beverage $348.34 10

By paying entity

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2019 $86.96 4
PY2020 $8.36 1
PY2021 $466.30 6
PY2022 $2,015.62 15
PY2023 $1,219.40 15
PY2024 $1,979.17 22
PY2025 $1,023.34 11

Payment records · PY2025 (11)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2025 201920202021202220232024 Record-level detail is published for PY2025; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Centinel Spine, LLC $63.77 04/28/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1238950112 CMS
Centinel Spine, LLC $38.95 07/01/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1238950110 CMS
Ethicon US, LLC $21.22 04/03/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1173868323 CMS
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. $24.07 06/26/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1242065752 CMS
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc $27.65 03/16/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1247477507 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $675.00 02/07/2025 Consulting Fee Undisputed 06/30/2026 1214696118 CMS
Orthofix Medical, Inc. $20.51 02/14/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1238834059 CMS
Orthofix Medical, Inc. $33.85 02/15/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1238834117 CMS
Orthofix Medical, Inc. $32.70 05/02/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1238834083 CMS
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $61.15 02/13/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1242223297 CMS
VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED $24.47 06/17/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1213914388 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-06-30
Program years on this page
2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024 , PY2025
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2025_P06302026_06032026.csv

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