Brandon Bushnell, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Rome, GANPI 1770704629
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $102,067 of the $160,385 with a category attached, or 63.6%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 99.0% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $40,819 and has fallen 52.4% since, to $19,445 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 235 payments — averaging $682.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$159K
- Johnson & Johnson$420
- Stryker$174
- Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$166
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$124
- Dynasplint Systems Inc.$122
- plus $564 from 11 others
Across 87 payments — averaging $2410.50 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Smith+Nephew$210K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$29,45518%
- Speaking & faculty fees$102,06764%
- Travel & lodging$23,55415%
- Food & beverage$5,3093%
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 | 181 | $158,814 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $420 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 4 | $174 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $166 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 14 | $124 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 2 | $122 |
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 7 | $117 |
| Biorez, Inc. | 1 | $101 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $67 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 1 | $37 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $27 |
| ERMI LLC | 2 | $26 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Amgen | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$79,978
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$64,607
- Healicoil$25,080
- Regeneten$20,068
- MICRORAPTOR$11,050
- REGENETEN Shoulder$9,042
- Biosure$7,800
- BIORAPTOR Shoulder$3,565
- HEALICOIL REGENESORB$3,450
- HEALICOIL PK Shoulder$2,300
- Q-FIX$1,983
- Accu-pass$1,495
- HEALICOIL Suture Anchor$1,482
- MICRORAPTOR Knotless Shoulder$1,380
- MICRORAPTOR Shoulder Suture$1,380
- Latarjet System$1,380
- REGENESORB$1,035
- CORI$170
- VA-LCP$142
- NA$142
How this compares
$160,385 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 654 orthopaedic surgery providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 118 | $1,135 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 48 | $452 |
| Celecoxib | 23 | $322 |
| Cephalexin | 56 | $282 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 30 | $80 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 20 | $62 |
| Amoxicillin | 14 | $16 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Rome
- Charles DecookCumming$48.3M
- Ormonde MahoneyAthens$10.6M
- Daxes BanitWarner Robins$5.5M
- John DorchakColumbus$3.8M
- Daniel SilcoxAtlanta$3.4M
- Dennis DevitoAtlanta$1.5M
- Jon MinterAlpharetta$1.2M
- George GuildCumming$987K
- William TallyAthens$870K
- Julian PriceAthens$805K
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.