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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,127 in general payments to Brandon Shepherd, MD across 142 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 Shepherd, 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 Shepherd, 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 Shepherd, MD

Otolaryngology · Germantown, TNNPI 1548614290

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,446 of the $7,127 with a category attached, or 76.4%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. at 37.5% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,206, 5.0 times the $440 reported in 2019.

$7,127in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 142 payments — averaging $50.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$3K
Medtronic$1K
Sanofi$658
Intersect ENT, Inc.$460
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$431
Aerin Medical Inc.$387
plus $1K from 15 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,55022%
Food & beverage$5,44676%
Education$1312%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	36	$2,674
Medtronic(2 entities)	21	$1,384
Sanofi	24	$658
Intersect ENT, Inc.	5	$460
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	5	$431
Aerin Medical Inc.	9	$387
GSK	21	$366
Acclarent, Inc	2	$155
Zimmer Biomet	1	$123
Smith+Nephew	2	$112
Neurent Medical Limited	3	$82
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$57
Merck	2	$34
Genentech USA, Inc.	2	$30
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$30
Advanced Bionics, LLC	2	$30
Lilly USA, LLC	1	$29
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	1	$25
Pentax Of America, Inc.	1	$24
Baxter Healthcare	1	$23
Livanova USA, Inc.	1	$13

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.

Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation System$1,451
Inspire$679
PROPEL$366
Acclarent Aera$272
Inspira Air$272
RELIEVA SPINPLUS NAV$272
TruDi Probe$272
Traumaone$123
Relieva Spinplus$105

How this compares

$7,127 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 191 otolaryngology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$203,423

Medicare patients

626

Services billed

1,527

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
Ipratropium Bromide	66	$1,488
Azelastine Hcl	70	$1,309
Omeprazole	109	$722
Famotidine	77	$613
Doxycycline Hyclate	47	$451
Fluticasone Propionate	24	$364
Mupirocin	49	$340
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	28	$304
Montelukast Sodium	13	$196
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	14	$57
Cephalexin	17	$54
Prednisone	14	$38
Ondansetron Hcl	20	$33
Tramadol Hcl	24	$33
Meclizine Hcl	11	$22

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Germantown

Dean KlugGermantown$37K
John TouliatosGermantown$5K
Rakesh ChandraNashville$381K
David FortuneHermitage$298K
Grady BryantHermitage$74K
Marion GillespieMemphis$67K
Clyde MathisonFarragut$66K
Michael TopfNashville$36K
John GleysteenMemphis$25K
Allan RosenbaumPowell$21K

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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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