Brandon Carlson, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Kansas City, KSNPI 1710249743
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (53.0%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Globus Medical accounts for 88.6% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $87,830, 6.8 times the $12,953 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in KS 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 412 payments — averaging $726.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$265K
- Amgen$11K
- Synthes GmbH$10K
- UCB SA$4K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$1K
- plus $6K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$158,69453%
- Speaking & faculty fees$73,36325%
- Travel & lodging$50,41517%
- Food & beverage$16,7496%
- Gifts$420%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 320 | $265,152 |
| Amgen | 17 | $11,488 |
| Synthes GmbH | 11 | $9,919 |
| UCB SA | 1 | $3,938 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $1,701 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 9 | $1,324 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 12 | $1,169 |
| Acuity Surgical Devices, LLC | 4 | $1,013 |
| Stryker | 10 | $806 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 2 | $688 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $638 |
| Degen Medical, Inc. | 2 | $323 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 2 | $322 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $185 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Smaio USA Corporation | 1 | $146 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $102 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $84 |
| Biedermann Motech, Inc. | 1 | $71 |
| Theradaptive, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
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.
- Excelsius - GPS$48,868
- XLIF$35,823
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$28,692
- Quartex$23,105
- Sublaminar Band Fixation$22,738
- EXCELSIUS$12,531
- EVENITY$11,333
- Sable$10,402
- ELSA ATP$10,368
- ELSA$9,610
- REVERE Corrective Osteotomy$7,817
- CALIBER$7,650
- Syndesmosis Fixation$7,438
- Excelsius3D Imaging System$6,295
- Excelsius Robotics System$5,711
- SYMPHONY$1,660
- RISE$1,343
- INSTRUMENTS$750
- Other - Miscellaneous$732
- Pulse$704
How this compares
$299,262 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 197 orthopaedic surgery providers in Kansas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 44 | $217 |
| Methylprednisolone | 17 | $83 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Kansas City
- David AndersonKansas City$490K
- Brent WiseKansas City$97K
- John SchroeppelKansas City$28K
- Mitchell BirtKansas City$26K
- Spencer FalconKansas City$23K
- Bryan VopatKansas City$22K
- Katie SmeltzerKansas City$19K
- Everett WilkinsonKansas City$12K
- Jacob BrubacherKansas City$11K
- Jacob DeisterTopeka$185K
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.