Brent Wiesel, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Washington, DCNPI 1538229471
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,755 of the $5,171 with a category attached, or 72.6%. Stryker accounts for 62.3% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in DC, where the typical reported total is $4,260.
Across 52 payments — averaging $99.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- Zimmer Biomet$638
- Change Healthcare Technologies, LLC$400
- Exactech, Inc.$335
- VB Spine LLC$218
- Vericel Corporation$125
- plus $232 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4008%
- Travel & lodging$61712%
- Food & beverage$3,75573%
- Education$4008%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 36 | $3,223 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $638 |
| Change Healthcare Technologies, LLC | 3 | $400 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 3 | $335 |
| VB Spine LLC | 1 | $218 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $125 |
| Abbott | 1 | $103 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $72 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $26 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 1 | $17 |
| Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC | 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.
- REUNION$936
- AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$682
- Change Healthcare Enterprise Viewer$400
- Comp Reverse Shoulder E$400
- Comprehensive Humeral$400
- EQUINOXE$254
- XIA 3 SYSTEM - SERRATO$218
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$172
- AEQUALIS FLEX REVIVE$169
- SERRATO$169
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$154
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$154
- COMPREHENSIVE$135
- MACI$125
- PROCLAIM$103
- Signature Glenoid Guides$103
How this compares
$5,171 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 46 orthopaedic surgery providers in District of Columbia.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 58 | $1,641 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 16 | $375 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 18 | $80 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 13 | $23 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Washington
- Akhil KhannaWashington$2.1M
- Seyed KalantarWashington$886K
- Scott FaucettWashington$610K
- David LuttonWashington$375K
- Savyasachi ThakkarWashington$216K
- Joseph FergusonWashington$84K
- Robert SterlingWashington$38K
- Ryan MurrayWashington$32K
- Robert HenshawWashington$24K
- Sandesh RaoWashington$21K
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.