Has Anthony Brown, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,243 in general payments to Anthony Brown, MD across 67 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Anthony Brown, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Anthony Brown, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Anthony Brown, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Fargo, NDNPI 1053348755

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (50.5%), food and beverage and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Brainlab, Inc. at 50.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,051 and has fallen 88.3% since, to $356 in 2025.

$7,243in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 67 payments — averaging $108.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Brainlab, Inc.$4K
Johnson & Johnson$1K
SIGN Fracture Care International$1K
Stryker$1K
Zimmer Biomet$97
Abbott$38
plus $14 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$1,15016%
Travel & lodging$3,65750%
Food & beverage$2,29232%
Education$1442%

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
Brainlab, Inc.	4	$3,685
Johnson & Johnson	31	$1,238
SIGN Fracture Care International	2	$1,150
Stryker	25	$1,022
Zimmer Biomet	2	$97
Abbott	2	$38
AbbVie	1	$14

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.

Image Guided Surgical Device$3,622
SIGN Orthpaedic Medical Devices$550
TFN-Advance$252
PRIME SERIES$114
PANGEA$106
TFN ADVANCED$102

How this compares

$7,243 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 61 orthopaedic surgery providers in North Dakota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$68,675

Medicare patients

Services billed

157

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.

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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.

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