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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,510 in general payments to Brent Whited, MD across 51 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 Whited, 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 Whited, 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 Whited, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · North Liberty, IANPI 1659428530

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,510in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 51 payments — averaging $108.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$3K
Microport Orthopedics Inc$2K
Smith+Nephew$348
Si-bone, Inc.$285
Stryker$219
Wardlow Enterprises$148
plus $14 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,27841%
Food & beverage$2,75450%
Education$4789%

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
Zimmer Biomet	28	$2,820
Microport Orthopedics Inc	11	$1,678
Smith+Nephew	3	$348
Si-bone, Inc.	4	$285
Stryker	3	$219
Wardlow Enterprises	1	$148
Vertex	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.

How this compares

$5,510 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 219 orthopaedic surgery providers in Iowa.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$343,463

Medicare patients

559

Services billed

3,452

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
Oxycodone Hcl	183	$1,075
Celecoxib	23	$824
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	53	$548
Tramadol Hcl	37	$131
Amoxicillin	133	$83
Clindamycin Hcl	27	$25

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in North Liberty

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Michael RoccaNorth Liberty$9K
John CallaghanIowa City$23.3M
Cesar de Cesar NettoIowa City$905K
Brian AdamsIowa City$868K
Lynn NelsonBelmond$285K
Robert WestermannIowa City$216K
Jacob ElkinsIowa City$188K
Brendan PattersonIowa City$166K
Joseph BuckwalterIowa City$132K

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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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