Has Brett Andres, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,326 in general payments to Brett Andres, MD across 35 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 Brett Andres, 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 Brett Andres, 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.

Brett Andres, MD

Sports Medicine · Portland, ORNPI 1801889399

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $4,039 of the $5,326 with a category attached, or 75.8%. Steelhead Surgical Inc accounts for 72.9% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,436 and has fallen 86.4% since, to $196 in 2025.

$5,326in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $152.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Steelhead Surgical Inc$4K
Zimmer Biomet$589
Johnson & Johnson$259
Smith+Nephew$191
Vericel Corporation$139
Arthrex$138
plus $125 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,28724%
Education$4,03976%

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
Steelhead Surgical Inc	14	$3,885
Zimmer Biomet	4	$589
Johnson & Johnson	10	$259
Smith+Nephew	2	$191
Vericel Corporation	2	$139
Arthrex	2	$138
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$125

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

$5,326 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 76 sports medicine providers in Oregon.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$93,477

Medicare patients

200

Services billed

697

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	12	$101
Oxycodone Hcl	14	$81
Amoxicillin	12	$35

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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