Alexander Brown, MD
Sports Medicine · McMinnville, TNNPI 1417376500
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $12,041 of the $18,092 with a category attached, or 66.6%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smith+Nephew at 45.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $10,230 and has fallen 89.6% since, to $1,067 in 2025.
Across 116 payments — averaging $155.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$8K
- Alpha Orthopedic Systems$4K
- Stryker$3K
- Arthrex$924
- Zimmer Biomet$469
- Orthalign Inc$342
- plus $936 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,88416%
- Food & beverage$3,16017%
- Education$12,04167%
- Other$70%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $8,261 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 6 | $4,031 |
| Stryker | 42 | $3,130 |
| Arthrex | 14 | $924 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 10 | $469 |
| Orthalign Inc | 2 | $342 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $269 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $93 |
| GSK | 4 | $79 |
| Vertex | 4 | $77 |
| Sandoz | 3 | $67 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 3 | $61 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 4 | $60 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $38 |
| MF MED | 2 | $32 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Bayer | 1 | $19 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $18 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- MAKO$972
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$664
- ORTHALIGN PLUS$342
- COBRA$165
- DYNACORD$108
How this compares
$18,092 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 147 sports medicine providers in Tennessee.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 30 | $217 |
| Meloxicam | 29 | $204 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 11 | $64 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in McMinnville
- Jeffrey DlabachCollierville$504K
- Ian ByramFranklin$252K
- Jw ByrdNashville$248K
- Lucas RichieLebanon$159K
- Zachary PharrColumbia$75K
- Colin LooneyFranklin$68K
- Jonathan BryantBristol$67K
- Lucas TeskeClarksville$57K
- Frederick AzarGermantown$54K
- Michael NeelMemphis$50K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.