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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,170 in general payments to Brent Mefford, MD across 38 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 Mefford, 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 Mefford, 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 Mefford, MD

Emergency Medicine · Oklahoma City, OKNPI 1497774293

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 38 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Inari Medical, Inc. at 37.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $356, 5.5 times the $65 reported in 2019. Among emergency medicine clinicians in OK with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$1,170in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 38 payments — averaging $30.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Inari Medical, Inc.$444
Johnson & Johnson$306
Pfizer$271
Vapotherm Inc$64
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$49
Genentech USA, Inc.$20
plus $17 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,170100%

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
Inari Medical, Inc.	6	$444
Johnson & Johnson	8	$306
Pfizer	17	$271
Vapotherm Inc	2	$64
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	3	$49
Genentech USA, Inc.	1	$20
Recordati_rare_diseases_inc.	1	$17

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

$1,170 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 682 emergency medicine providers in Oklahoma.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$137,040

Medicare patients

906

Services billed

999

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
Cefdinir	86	$1,497
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	103	$677
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	58	$509
Doxycycline Hyclate	45	$359
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	30	$264
Methylprednisolone	33	$245
Meloxicam	51	$190
Cephalexin	21	$167
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	24	$161
Prednisone	62	$137
Ciprofloxacin Hcl	17	$123
Clindamycin Hcl	13	$111
Mupirocin	12	$103
Gabapentin	16	$69
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	20	$58

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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