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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $143,683 in general payments to Brandon Lawrence, MD across 177 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

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

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.

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

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.

Brandon Lawrence, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1659555670

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $95,403 of the $143,683 with a category attached, or 66.4%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 27.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $76,515, more than ten times the $3,726 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in UT 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.

$143,683in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 177 payments — averaging $811.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$40K
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$38K
Highridge Medical LLC$27K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$23K
Zimvie Inc.$9K
Synthes GmbH$5K
plus $2K from 10 others

$2,023,362in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 37 payments — averaging $54,685 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.

Eli Lilly$2M

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$6,5205%
Consulting fees$95,40366%
Speaking & faculty fees$6,9005%
Travel & lodging$29,91621%
Food & beverage$4,8813%
Entertainment$640%

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
Medtronic	44	$39,728
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc	29	$37,931
Highridge Medical LLC	38	$27,271
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	21	$22,698
Zimvie Inc.	17	$8,534
Synthes GmbH	7	$5,309
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	2	$571
Alphatec Spine, Inc	2	$405
Johnson & Johnson	3	$328
Stryker	4	$224
Globus Medical(2 entities)	2	$201
Spineology Inc.	2	$177
EBI, LLC	2	$103
MML US, Inc.	1	$98
VB Spine LLC	2	$87
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$17

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.

MagnetOs$37,332
Virage$27,896
INFUSE BONE GRAFT$23,155
GRAFTONAND GRAFTON PLUSDEMINERALIZED BONE MATRIX (DBM)$9,365
Spine-None$6,702
INFUSE$2,400
MASTERGRAFT$2,400
Velys$703
Vital$327
LIF$250
The Tether$173
OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$155
Pulse$152
NIAGARA LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$148
Vivigen MIS Delivery System$114

How this compares

$143,683 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 221 orthopaedic surgery providers in Utah.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$398,426

Medicare patients

301

Services billed

1,263

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.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Salt Lake City

Aaron HofmannSalt Lake City$10.7M
Jeremy GilillandSalt Lake City$2.9M
Robert TashjianSalt Lake City$2.6M
Jeffrey JacksonSalt Lake City$2.3M
Thomas HigginsSalt Lake City$1.2M
Christopher MartinSalt Lake City$1.2M
Christopher PeltSalt Lake City$432K
Robert BurksSalt Lake City$355K
Charles SaltzmanSalt Lake City$254K
Stephen AokiSalt Lake City$239K

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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.

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