Branum Griswold, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Denver, CONPI 1619468758
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 145 payments — averaging $123.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$4K
- Shoulder Innovations, Inc.$3K
- Exactech, Inc.$2K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Arthrex$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- plus $4K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$160%
- Travel & lodging$5,73532%
- Food & beverage$11,05462%
- Education$1,0336%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 45 | $4,196 |
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 9 | $3,179 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 5 | $2,375 |
| Smith+Nephew | 29 | $1,687 |
| Arthrex | 8 | $1,193 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $1,033 |
| Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC | 2 | $745 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $433 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $404 |
| Insight Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $396 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 4 | $381 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $298 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $155 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $126 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $117 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| Next Science LLC | 2 | $113 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $105 |
| Fortis Surgical, LLC | 1 | $99 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $96 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $88 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $83 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $66 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $27 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $22 |
| Merck | 1 | $21 |
| Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC | 1 | $19 |
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.
- InSet System$3,179
- EQUINOXE$2,246
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$1,742
- DJO SURGICAL$895
- AETOS Shoulder System$759
- ARVIS$396
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$366
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$366
- EVOS$257
- Photodynamic Bone Stabilization Procedure Pack$230
- AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$172
- ALPHAVENT$168
- PANGEA$155
- Exogen Ultrasound Bone Healing System$142
- QWIX$139
- Medical Device$138
- MAVERICK$136
- EQUINOXE PHX SYSTEM$129
- T2$128
- Persona$122
How this compares
$17,837 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 383 orthopaedic surgery providers in Colorado.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 12 | $32 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Denver
- Douglas DennisDenver$17.5M
- Brian HaasDenver$5.1M
- Charlie YangDenver$3.7M
- Benjamin SearsDenver$907K
- Todd MinerDenver$640K
- Harold HuntDenver$179K
- Wayne GersoffDenver$164K
- Catherine LoganDenver$93K
- David HahnDenver$77K
- Joshua ParryDenver$71K
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.