Brendon Connolly, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Bradenton, FLNPI 1144306572
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,797 of the $5,624 with a category attached, or 67.5%. Stryker accounts for 86.3% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,553 and has fallen 72.7% since, to $697 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $5,564.
Across 90 payments — averaging $62.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$5K
- MVP Orthopedics Inc$292
- Shoulder Innovations, Inc.$276
- Coastal Medical Technologies LLC$116
- Heraeus Medical, LLC.$26
- Johnson & Johnson$23
- plus $38 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,62129%
- Food & beverage$3,79768%
- Education$2074%
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 | 65 | $4,854 |
| MVP Orthopedics Inc | 13 | $292 |
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 4 | $276 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 4 | $116 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $26 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $23 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $22 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
How this compares
$5,624 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,263 orthopaedic surgery providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 337 | $6,048 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 219 | $3,065 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 78 | $1,320 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 104 | $762 |
| Meloxicam | 248 | $659 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 140 | $573 |
| Methylprednisolone | 73 | $509 |
| Cephalexin | 42 | $209 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 24 | $170 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 26 | $157 |
| Ibuprofen | 34 | $133 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 25 | $127 |
| Naproxen | 11 | $23 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Bradenton
- Alan ValadieBradenton$415K
- Andrew CooperClearwater$102M
- Richard HynesMelbourne$34.8M
- Mark FrankleTemple Terrace$31M
- Roy SandersTemple Terrace$19.6M
- George HaidukewychOrlando$10M
- Robert SantrockFernandina Beach$7.3M
- Martin RocheFt. Lauderdale$7.1M
- Steven LyonsTampa$6.7M
- Thomas BernasekTemple Terrace$6.4M
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.