Brett Richards, MD
Hand Surgery · Ogden, UTNPI 1356470033
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,744 of the $2,595 with a category attached, or 67.2%. Trimed, Inc. accounts for 64.9% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,912 and has fallen 91.8% since, to $157 in 2025.
Across 24 payments — averaging $108.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Trimed, Inc.$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$198
- Lima USA, Inc.$185
- Smith+Nephew$137
- Bioventus LLC$100
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$72
- plus $219 from 7 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $250.00 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.
- Stryker$500
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$85233%
- Food & beverage$1,74467%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trimed, Inc. | 2 | $1,684 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $198 |
| Lima USA, Inc. | 1 | $185 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $137 |
| Bioventus LLC | 6 | $100 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $72 |
| Extremity Medical | 1 | $53 |
| Stryker | 1 | $44 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $22 |
| International Rehabilitative Sciences, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Vertex | 1 | $17 |
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.
- SMR$185
- DVR Anatomic Kickstand$125
How this compares
$2,595 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 22 hand surgery providers in Utah.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 63 | $330 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 24 | $147 |
| Methylprednisolone | 13 | $131 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 16 | $88 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 32 | $76 |
| Meloxicam | 15 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Ogden
- Blake SellersOgden$368
- Patrick MichelierSalt Lake City$11K
- Brad HyattProvo$3K
- Curtis JohnsonProvo$3K
- Akshay KrishnanSalt Lake City$3K
- John MangelsonAmerican Fork$3K
- David PetersonLogan$2K
- Sean MartinSalt Lake City$2K
- Sidney BaucomSalt Lake City$1K
- Dirk SladeSt George$1K
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.