Question 1

Has Brandon Couch, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,677 in general payments to Brandon Couch, MD across 52 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Question 2

Does a payment mean Brandon Couch, MD did something wrong?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 3

Where does this information about Brandon Couch, MD come from?

Accepted Answer

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.

Company	Payments	Total
Stryker	23	$3,100
Smith+Nephew	8	$2,493
Zimmer Biomet	11	$964
Johnson & Johnson	3	$415
Davol Inc.	2	$252
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$159
Mission Medical Distribution, LLC	1	$144
Lifenet Health	1	$117
Radius Health, Inc.	2	$33

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