Question 1

Has Brent Geers received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $36,193 in general payments to Brent Geers across 109 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Question 2

Does a payment mean Brent Geers did something wrong?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 3

Where does this information about Brent Geers come from?

Accepted Answer

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.

Company	Payments	Total
Pinnacle, Inc	46	$25,042
Smith+Nephew	2	$5,142
Zimmer Biomet	20	$1,311
Stryker	13	$1,162
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$950
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	6	$493
Bone Support Inc.	2	$315
Avanos Medical	2	$288
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$259
Paragon 28, Inc.	2	$222
KCI USA, Inc.	2	$191
Catalyst Orthoscience	1	$146
Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.	1	$138
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$137
Exactech, Inc.	1	$120
Davol Inc.	1	$119
Globus Medical	1	$62
Biorez, Inc.	1	$45
Vertex	1	$22
Convatec Inc.	1	$22
My01 Inc.	1	$4

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