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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $54,986 in general payments to Brett Sanders, MD across 120 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 Sanders, 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 Sanders, 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 Sanders, MD

Hand Surgery · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1427048073

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $40,137 of the $54,986 with a category attached, or 73.0%. Encore Medical, LP accounts for 66.0% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $13,169 and has fallen 83.8% since, to $2,135 in 2025. Among hand surgery clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$54,986in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 120 payments — averaging $458.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Encore Medical, LP$36K
Stryker$6K
Alpha Orthopedic Systems$5K
Arthrex$2K
Maruho Medical, Inc.$2K
Catalyst Orthoscience$2K
plus $3K from 10 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$40,13773%
Travel & lodging$4,9109%
Food & beverage$4,7949%
Education$5,1459%

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
Encore Medical, LP	40	$36,270
Stryker	25	$5,960
Alpha Orthopedic Systems	9	$4,793
Arthrex	8	$1,699
Maruho Medical, Inc.	2	$1,605
Catalyst Orthoscience	12	$1,593
Teleflex LLC	6	$1,166
Shoulder Innovations, Inc.	4	$990
Innovation Technologies Inc	2	$288
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$151
Exactech, Inc.	1	$107
Smith+Nephew	4	$95
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$85
Biedermann Motech, Inc.	1	$80
Zimmer Biomet	1	$60
Medartis Inc.	1	$43

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.

DJO SURGICAL$27,370
DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$19,305
DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$18,953
OMEGA$2,800
Accessories$1,605
Suture Anchors$1,500
Catalyst Total CSR$1,029
InSet System$946
INSPACE$722
REUNION$522
NA$417
MAKO$381
Irrisept$288
DJO Surgical Discovery Elbow System$248
CSR & R1 Reverse Total Shoulder Systems$168
R1 Reverse Total Shoulder$168
Archer 3D Software$168
HIP ARTHROSCOPY ACCESS & INSTRUMENTATION SET$150
1688$134
BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$122

How this compares

$54,986 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 60 hand surgery providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$258,743

Medicare patients

453

Services billed

10,072

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
EliquisApixaban	22	$7,611
Naloxone Hcl	87	$5,961
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	184	$1,397
Minocycline Hcl	57	$799
Oxycodone Hcl	217	$754
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	80	$446
Gabapentin	40	$326
Ketorolac Tromethamine	36	$251
Methylprednisolone	39	$244
Promethazine Hcl	33	$107
Amoxicillin	16	$51
Tramadol Hcl	25	$30

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other hand surgery in Chattanooga

David JemisonChattanooga$7K
Donald LeeNashville$546K
Mihir DesaiNashville$110K
Gleb MedvedevNashville$60K
Todd RubinNashville$39K
Jed MaslowNashville$29K
Paul GormanJohnson City$24K
Jane SiegelNashville$22K
Daniel BranhamOak Ridge$19K
Heather TaillacCookeville$17K

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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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