Brandon Huggins, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Fort Wayne, INNPI 1720460413
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $72,500 of the $87,019 with a category attached, or 83.3%. Globus Medical accounts for 89.2% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $73,080 and has fallen 100.0% since, to $18 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in IN 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 129 payments — averaging $674.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$78K
- Medtronic$3K
- Stryker$2K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$620
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$450
- plus $1K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$72,50083%
- Travel & lodging$5,0596%
- Food & beverage$6,6468%
- Education$2,8143%
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) | 50 | $77,631 |
| Medtronic | 34 | $3,169 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 4 | $2,288 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 3 | $1,501 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $620 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 12 | $450 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $368 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 3 | $341 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $250 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $19 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Crossroads Orthopedics, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Smith+Nephew | 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.
- FORTIFY$1,435
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$1,343
- Other - Miscellaneous$1,293
- CD HORIZON$1,206
- MARS 3V/3VL$1,059
- AVS ANCHOR-C$851
- Sable$804
- Xvision$500
- Excelsius - GPS$261
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$253
- Spinal-Stim$218
- GRAFTONAND GRAFTON PLUSDEMINERALIZED BONE MATRIX (DBM)$174
- 7D Surgical FLASH Frame$152
- CLYDESDALE PTC SPINAL SYSTEM$151
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$151
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$150
- XLIF$149
- RISE-L$144
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$136
- WaveForm C$128
How this compares
$87,019 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 400 orthopaedic surgery providers in Indiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 162 | $1,783 |
| Methocarbamol | 101 | $910 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 80 | $824 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 64 | $659 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 47 | $506 |
| Methylprednisolone | 72 | $430 |
| Pregabalin | 18 | $289 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 31 | $264 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 30 | $229 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 25 | $151 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 33 | $150 |
| Cephalexin | 16 | $107 |
| Prednisone | 30 | $92 |
| Diazepam | 15 | $12 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Fort Wayne
- John WilliamsFort Wayne$2.7M
- Alan McGeeFort Wayne$1.1M
- Micah SmithFort Wayne$674K
- Alan McGeeFort Wayne$135K
- Christopher JohnsonFort Wayne$86K
- Michael LeeFort Wayne$42K
- Frank KolisekGreenwood$7.5M
- David FisherIndianapolis$5.9M
- Michael BerendIndianapolis$4M
- Sanford KunkelIndianapolis$1.9M
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.