Brandt Becker, MD
Surgery · Pierre, SDNPI 1538321708
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (46.4%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Cardinal Health 105 LLC accounts for 81.4% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,041 and has fallen 93.8% since, to $190 in 2025.
Across 47 payments — averaging $77.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cardinal Health 105 LLC$3K
- Amgen$163
- Lilly USA, LLC$97
- Novo Nordisk$78
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$48
- Exact Sciences$47
- plus $247 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,70046%
- Travel & lodging$1,13731%
- Food & beverage$82523%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal Health 105 LLC | 8 | $2,981 |
| Amgen | 10 | $163 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $97 |
| Novo Nordisk | 5 | $78 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $48 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $47 |
| Bayer | 2 | $37 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $31 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $23 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $22 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Vertex | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$3,662 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 87 surgery providers in South Dakota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 11 | $220 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 25 | $107 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Pierre
- Eldon BeckerPierre$1K
- Riley LambPierre$619
- Curtis PeerySioux Falls$791K
- Juliann ReilandSioux Falls$48K
- Dennis GlattSioux Falls$38K
- Andrew HaputaSisseton$21K
- James HegvikDakota Dunes$19K
- Pial HopeRapid City$17K
- David FrommRapid City$16K
- Bradley ThaemertSioux Falls$14K
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.