Andrew Braziel, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Waltham, MANPI 1821318726
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 136 payments — averaging $272.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$32K
- Encore Medical, LP$3K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Stryker$1K
- Orthalign Inc$159
- Davol Inc.$153
- plus $296 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$21,75059%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5004%
- Travel & lodging$4,83313%
- Food & beverage$6,53518%
- Education$2,5007%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 94 | $31,544 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 10 | $2,749 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 9 | $1,124 |
| Stryker | 11 | $1,094 |
| Orthalign Inc | 1 | $159 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $153 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $91 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $70 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $9 |
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.
- Persona$3,400
- Arcos$3,375
- DJO Surgical TaperFill Hip System$1,500
- DJO Surgical Empowr Knee System$1,500
- DJO Surgical 3DKnee System$1,206
- Oxford$946
- ACTIS$900
- ATTUNE$900
- SIGMA$900
- MAKO$839
- G7$440
- ROSA$434
- Persona Revision$260
- Avenir$176
- ORTHALIGN PLUS$159
- Revision$114
How this compares
$37,119 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 542 orthopaedic surgery providers in Massachusetts.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amoxicillin | 120 | $170 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 18 | $28 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Waltham
- Brian KwonWaltham$1.9M
- Brian McKeonWaltham$644K
- Alan CurtisWaltham$290K
- John RichmondWaltham$114K
- Kurt HofmannWaltham$106K
- Geoffrey van FlandernWaltham$87K
- Paul TornettaBoston$16.7M
- Thomas ThornhillBoston$12M
- Stephen MurphyRoxbury Crossing$8M
- Andrew FreibergBoston$5.9M
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.