Brian Braaksma, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Ft Worth, TXNPI 1144476995
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 112 payments — averaging $220.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$9K
- Zavation Medical Products, LLC$7K
- Clariance SAS$2K
- Nanohive Medical LLC$2K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$760
- Medtronic$690
- plus $4K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$16,77568%
- Travel & lodging$2,38410%
- Food & beverage$5,48222%
- Education$990%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 8 | $8,944 |
| Zavation Medical Products, LLC | 9 | $7,345 |
| Clariance SAS | 2 | $1,950 |
| Nanohive Medical LLC | 2 | $1,529 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 11 | $760 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 12 | $690 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus | 8 | $680 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 18 | $544 |
| Stryker | 6 | $455 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 5 | $403 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 7 | $295 |
| Clariance, Inc. | 6 | $189 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $186 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 3 | $168 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 2 | $155 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 2 | $126 |
| CTL Medical Corporation | 1 | $111 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 3 | $97 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $47 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Nexxt Spine LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
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.
- MagnetOs$8,704
- Hive Standalone Cervical System$1,500
- Expendable TLIF$975
- Expandable TLIF$975
- MAKO$297
- ACP$181
- Medical Device$171
- IdentiTi$122
- MAST QUADRANT$121
- Adaptix$117
- iFuse Implant$117
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$114
- ELEVATE$104
How this compares
$24,741 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 207 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Texas.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 97 | $1,426 |
| Methylprednisolone | 75 | $540 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 89 | $449 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 34 | $348 |
| Meloxicam | 142 | $306 |
| Gabapentin | 50 | $292 |
| Diazepam | 45 | $205 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 23 | $130 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Ft Worth
- Randall DryerAustin$2.9M
- Craig KuhnsAustin$2.7M
- David WimberleyHouston$2.2M
- Jeffrey PhelpsNorth Richland Hills$1.9M
- Eric WieserArlington$1.5M
- Richard GuyerPlano$1.3M
- Andrew ClavennaDallas$1.3M
- Ivan ChengKyle$1.2M
- Stephen TolhurstFlower Mound$1.1M
- Michael ObrienPlano$1M
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.