Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

CARMELITA A TEETER

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Orthopaedic Surgery

NPI
1629160700
CMS profile
165010
Location
HARLINGEN, TX

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$21,712.12

  • Reported across 131 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$7,715.54

21 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

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Consulting Fee $5,800.00 2
Travel and Lodging $1,365.16 3
Food and Beverage $550.38 16

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Vericel Corporation $7,185.84 6
Stryker Corporation $223.07 3
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $210.33 9
Smith & Nephew, Inc. $38.25 1
Bioventus LLC $33.85 1
Innovation Technologies Inc $24.20 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $2,876.93 9
PY2019 $4,909.25 29
PY2020 $714.97 6
PY2021 $4,114.47 24
PY2022 $279.04 13
PY2023 $1,101.92 29
PY2024 $7,715.54 21

Payment records · PY2024 (21)

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

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Bioventus LLC $33.85 07/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1137450433 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $29.64 01/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077892920 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $8.74 02/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077892922 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $15.41 03/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077892918 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $11.57 03/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077892914 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $31.67 04/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077892932 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $20.60 05/02/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077892938 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $23.24 05/31/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077892944 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $52.99 08/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077892928 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $16.47 08/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077892926 CMS
Innovation Technologies Inc $24.20 06/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1130824381 CMS
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $38.25 02/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1149565389 CMS
Stryker Corporation $168.99 04/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119996672 CMS
Stryker Corporation $23.93 05/28/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119996674 CMS
Stryker Corporation $30.15 09/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119996676 CMS
Vericel Corporation $300.00 01/14/2024 Consulting Fee Undisputed 01/23/2026 1128572990 CMS
Vericel Corporation $639.95 06/20/2024 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 1128572982 CMS
Vericel Corporation $20.68 06/26/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1128572992 CMS
Vericel Corporation $546.16 08/27/2024 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 1128572986 CMS
Vericel Corporation $179.05 08/27/2024 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 1128572988 CMS
Vericel Corporation $5,500.00 08/29/2024 Consulting Fee Undisputed 01/23/2026 1128572984 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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