Barron Bremner, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery · West Des Moines, IANPI 1134106396
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (43.2%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. at 28.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $10,249 and has fallen 67.8% since, to $3,303 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in IA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 116 payments — averaging $191.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$6K
- Johnson & Johnson$6K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
- Brainlab, Inc.$3K
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$1K
- Arthrosurface Incorporated$1K
- plus $2K from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,62343%
- Travel & lodging$8,59539%
- Food & beverage$3,96118%
- Education$790%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 9 | $6,240 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 53 | $5,992 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 8 | $3,176 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 2 | $2,516 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 12 | $1,109 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 3 | $1,050 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 9 | $782 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 7 | $542 |
| Stryker | 7 | $439 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $128 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $89 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $88 |
| Ortho Systems | 1 | $79 |
| Orthalign Inc | 1 | $29 |
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.
- Velys$2,076
- INHANCE$1,476
- HemiCAP$1,050
- OVOMotion$1,050
- RevoMotion$1,050
- HEMICAPOVO$1,050
- Iovera$867
- AQUAMANTYS$571
- MAKO$408
- SPEEDTRAP$302
- BIOLOX DELTA$237
- TRIATHLON$171
- Comprehensive Primary Stem$136
- DJO SURGICAL$128
- Persona Revision$119
How this compares
$22,259 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 219 orthopaedic surgery providers in Iowa.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 85 | $530 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 19 | $45 |
| Amoxicillin | 23 | $30 |
| Meloxicam | 15 | $18 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in West Des Moines
- Zachary RiesWest Des Moines$43K
- Christopher KimWest Des Moines$10K
- Kawsu BarryWest Des Moines$8K
- John CallaghanIowa City$23.3M
- Brian AdamsIowa City$865K
- Cesar de Cesar NettoIowa City$693K
- Lynn NelsonBelmond$285K
- Robert WestermannIowa City$182K
- Joseph BuckwalterIowa City$132K
- Brendan PattersonIowa City$122K
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.