Has Brian Bruckner, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $105,752 in general payments to Brian Bruckner, MD across 108 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 Brian Bruckner, 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 Brian Bruckner, 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.

Brian Bruckner, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Hollywood, FLNPI 1871573097

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $90,323 of the $105,752 with a category attached, or 85.4%. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Biom'up SA at 44.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $79,694 and has fallen 99.4% since, to $456 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in FL 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.

$105,752in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 108 payments — averaging $979.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Biom'up SA$47K
Biom'up France SAS$18K
Baxter Healthcare$14K
GRT US Holding, Inc.$8K
Abbott$7K
Davol Inc.$6K
plus $6K from 17 others

$41,586in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 9 payments — averaging $4620.62 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.

Abbott$39K
Medtronic$3K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$90,32385%
Speaking & faculty fees$9,0009%
Travel & lodging$8331%
Food & beverage$5,5765%
Education$200%

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
Biom'up SA	6	$47,304
Biom'up France SAS	8	$18,098
Baxter Healthcare	12	$13,620
GRT US Holding, Inc.	1	$8,000
Abbott	23	$6,809
Davol Inc.	4	$6,106
Dilon Technologies, Inc.	2	$3,122
Abiomed	21	$1,420
Livanova USA, Inc.	5	$410
Atricure, Inc.	6	$209
Medtronic	3	$199
Kerecis Limited	3	$177
Acera Surgical, Inc.	2	$49
Convatec Inc.	2	$45
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company	2	$38
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$28
CSL Behring	1	$20
TELA Bio, Inc.	1	$20
Angiodynamics, Inc.	1	$19
AbbVie	1	$17
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	1	$16
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	1	$15
Johnson & Johnson	1	$12

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.

HEMOBLAST$47,272
HemoBlast Bellows$21,122
No Related Product$10,733
ARISTA AH$6,000
HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$3,859
FLOSEAL$2,270
CardioMEMS HF System$1,827
Impella$1,103
THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$532
Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$444
COSEAL$234
CentriMag$165
Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$148
Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$148
LifeSPARC$142
Protek Duo$135
PREVELEAK$125
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$124
HeartWare HVAD$110

How this compares

$105,752 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$25,846

Medicare patients

Services billed

128

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.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Hollywood

Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
Barry WintonLargo$687K
Paul DigiorgiPort Charlotte$666K
John PirrisJacksonville$640K
Jacques FontaineTampa$630K
Andrew ShermanTampa$517K
Rogerio CarrilloHialeah$515K
Daniel O'HairFort Myers$429K
Luis HerreraOrlando$409K
Joseph LamelasMiami$379K

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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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