Has Brent Alford, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $142,695 in general payments to Brent Alford, MD across 139 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 Brent Alford, 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 Brent Alford, 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.

Brent Alford, MD

Neurological Surgery · Fort Worth, TXNPI 1467488288

Payments from drug & device makers

$142,695in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 139 payments — averaging $1026.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Fort Worth Surgical Supply, LLC$115K
Xtant Medical Inc$11K
Implanet America, Inc.$8K
Nalu Medical, Inc.$3K
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$2K
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$522
plus $4K from 37 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$12,2009%
Travel & lodging$8,7426%
Food & beverage$6,7535%
Ownership interest$115,00081%

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
Fort Worth Surgical Supply, LLC	1	$115,000
Xtant Medical Inc	21	$10,516
Implanet America, Inc.	5	$8,018
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$2,500
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	11	$2,493
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	10	$522
Boston Scientific	12	$447
Cerapedics Inc.	2	$424
Intrinsic Therapeutics	4	$351
Smith+Nephew	5	$332
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	6	$250
Spineart USA Inc	2	$183
Medtronic(2 entities)	2	$145
Johnson & Johnson	2	$137
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	5	$129
Livanova USA, Inc.	5	$126
Nevro Corp.	5	$109
Abbott	6	$106
Stryker	3	$77
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC	3	$77
Centinel Spine, LLC	1	$76
Avanos Medical	2	$66
Vertiflex, Inc.	1	$57
Highridge Medical LLC	1	$57
Pfizer	3	$51
Hydrocision, Inc.	1	$40
Medacta USA, Inc.	1	$40
Aesculap, Inc.	2	$39
Spinal Elements, Inc.	1	$33
Omniscient Neurotechnology America Ltd	2	$31
Vertex	1	$31
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc	1	$26
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$25
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$24
Baxter Healthcare	1	$22
Medexus Pharma, Inc.	1	$19
Globus Medical	1	$19
Painteq LLC	1	$19
Nexxt Spine LLC	1	$18
Bioventus LLC	1	$17
Spineology Inc.	1	$16
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$14
Olympus America Inc.	1	$14

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.

Nalu Neurostimulation System$2,500
ARAI SURGICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM$1,860
FORTILINK CAGES WITH TIPLUS TECHNOLOGY$1,731
STREAMLINE TL SPINAL FIXATION SYSTEM$1,731
STREAMLINE* OCT OCCIPITO-CERVICO-THORACIC SYSTEM$1,731
i-FACTOR Putty$424
BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$316
FORTILINK-A IBF SYSTEM$279
CORTERA$145
STRATA$132
VERSAJET II$125
WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$117
SURGIFLO Hemostatic Matrix Family of Products$102
EVICEL Fibrin Sealant (Human)$102

How this compares

$142,695 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 582 neurological surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$278,492

Medicare patients

341

Services billed

1,296

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	74	$1,199
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	88	$726
Methylprednisolone	81	$622
Gabapentin	54	$578
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	19	$577
Baclofen	14	$232

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Fort Worth

Gregory SmithFort Worth$247K
Grant BooherFort Worth$167K
John DormanOdessa$8.5M
Daniel PetersonAustin$5.8M
Daniel CurryHouston$3M
Peter KanGalveston$1.8M
Mirza BaigShenandoah$1.6M
Koijan KainthThe Woodlands$1.3M
Luis DuarteSan Angelo$1.2M
Douglas FoxAustin$948K

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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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