Brent Stephens, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Melbourne, FLNPI 1326278110
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (52.4%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 66.1% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 108 payments — averaging $341.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$24K
- Encore Medical, LP$5K
- Arthrex$5K
- Reel Surgical, Inc.$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$904
- Smith+Nephew$88
- plus $234 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$19,34052%
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,48523%
- Travel & lodging$4,51212%
- Food & beverage$3,4239%
- Education$1,1733%
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 | 63 | $24,415 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 5 | $4,937 |
| Arthrex | 12 | $4,865 |
| Reel Surgical, Inc. | 5 | $1,489 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 11 | $904 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $88 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $80 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $46 |
| Amgen | 1 | $23 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Joint Active Systems, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Axogen | 1 | $16 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $14 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $12 |
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$10,611
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$8,984
- AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$6,813
- MAKO$5,350
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$4,780
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$4,633
- PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS$2,569
- TORNIER FLEX$1,350
- REUNION$766
- Persona$738
- TORNIER PERFORM REVERSED AUGMENTED GLENOID$563
- TORNIER PERFORM ANATOMIC AUGMENTED GLENOID$563
- AEQUALIS$300
How this compares
$36,932 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 102 | $653 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 92 | $487 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 36 | $319 |
| Cephalexin | 14 | $167 |
| Ibuprofen | 17 | $92 |
| Amoxicillin | 50 | $80 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 33 | $66 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 21 | $59 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Melbourne
- Richard HynesMelbourne$34.8M
- Kenneth SandsMelbourne$407K
- Andrew CooperClearwater$102M
- 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.