Brent Morris, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Lexington, KYNPI 1316107592
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $521,122 of the $815,399 with a category attached, or 63.9%. Stryker accounts for 99.7% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in KY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 697 payments — averaging $1169.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$813K
- Medinc Of Texas$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$322
- Smith+Nephew$131
- Boston Scientific$121
- Innovation Technologies Inc$86
- plus $297 from 9 others
Across 31 payments — averaging $2772.75 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Stryker$86K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$208,87326%
- Consulting fees$521,12264%
- Speaking & faculty fees$30,0654%
- Travel & lodging$42,5855%
- Food & beverage$11,6211%
- Education$1,1330%
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(2 entities) | 671 | $813,310 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 1 | $1,133 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $322 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $131 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $121 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 3 | $86 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $68 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Amgen | 3 | $42 |
| Vertex | 2 | $38 |
| Legacy Ortho LLC | 1 | $25 |
| My01 Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Blue Surgical LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Halozyme Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$324,291
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$223,387
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$154,103
- TORNIER PERFORM REVERSED GLENOID$69,398
- AEQUALIS$69,313
- BLUEPRINT PSI SYSTEM$55,394
- SIMPLICITI$42,068
- TORNIER PERFORM ANATOMIC AUGMENTED GLENOID$39,586
- TORNIER PERFORM REVERSED AUGMENTED GLENOID$39,140
- R&D UPPER EXT$21,520
- AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$17,212
- REUNION$15,972
- MAKO$13,965
- TORNIER FLEX$7,350
- BLUEPRINT$5,280
- PYC HUMERAL HEAD$4,180
- UPPER EXTREMITIES$1,870
- R&D EXTREMITIES$1,650
- AEQUALIS REVERSED II$1,548
- NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$990
How this compares
$815,399 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 322 orthopaedic surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ondansetron Hcl | 74 | $558 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 83 | $468 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 24 | $134 |
| Methylprednisolone | 14 | $49 |
| Meloxicam | 16 | $27 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Lexington
- Paul MatuszewskiLexington$370K
- Christian ChristensenLexington$207K
- Kaveh SajadiLexington$195K
- Daniel HackettLexington$104K
- Victor MarwinLexington$86K
- Kevin DenehyLexington$85K
- Camden BurnsLexington$62K
- Srinath KamineniLexington$44K
- Syed MehdiLexington$39K
- Graysen Petersen-FittsLexington$38K
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.