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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $249,738 in general payments to Brett Levine, MD across 241 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 Levine, 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 Levine, 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 Levine, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1578542882

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $216,725 of the $249,738 with a category attached, or 86.8%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Linkbio Corp at 27.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $72,896 and has fallen 64.7% since, to $25,703 in 2025.

$249,738in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 241 payments — averaging $1036.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Linkbio Corp$69K
Exactech, Inc.$65K
Zimmer Biomet$52K
Encore Medical, LP$26K
Limacorporate S.p.a.$25K
Synthes GmbH$4K
plus $9K from 15 others

$10,530in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $1755.00 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.

Zimmer Biomet$11K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$216,72587%
Speaking & faculty fees$2,5001%
Travel & lodging$25,34110%
Food & beverage$4,8852%
Education$2880%

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
Linkbio Corp	26	$69,104
Exactech, Inc.	66	$65,197
Zimmer Biomet	76	$51,782
Encore Medical, LP	32	$25,975
Limacorporate S.p.a.	9	$24,975
Synthes GmbH	7	$3,701
Merete Technologies, Inc	2	$3,300
Restor3d, Inc.	2	$2,545
Dentsply Sirona Inc	2	$963
Orthoxel Designated Activity Company	1	$625
Smith+Nephew	3	$620
Stryker	4	$423
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$121
Lima USA, Inc.	1	$98
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$74
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$66
Next Science LLC	2	$56
Xoran Technologies LLC	1	$42
Johnson & Johnson	2	$42
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$16
Heraeus Medical, LLC.	1	$15

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.

ALTEON$26,871
Delta Cup$24,864
TRULIANT$16,931
NOVATION HIP$16,427
OPTETRAK$4,233
DJO SURGICAL$4,032
APEX FEMORAL NAILING SYSTEM$625
REAL INTELLIGENCE$550
SERRATO$169
G7$153
Acetabular$121
Efficient Care$121
EXPAREL$121

How this compares

$249,738 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 67 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$386,174

Medicare patients

880

Services billed

9,080

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	86	$1,049
Celecoxib	17	$805
Cefadroxil	14	$185
Meloxicam	38	$158
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	11	$157
Tramadol Hcl	46	$133
Methylprednisolone	17	$122
Amoxicillin	29	$43

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Chicago

Denis NamChicago$3.2M
Craig della ValleChicago$2.4M
Hany BedairChicago$1.1M
Linda SuleimanChicago$898K
Tad GerlingerChicago$642K
Henry FinnChicago$523K
Vasili KarasChicago$264K
Sara WallaceChicago$148K
Joshua JacobsChicago$72K
William ThomasChicago$27K

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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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