Brian Culp, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Princeton, NJNPI 1750693909
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $323,295 of the $382,050 with a category attached, or 84.6%. Medacta USA, Inc. accounts for 75.0% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in NJ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 359 payments — averaging $1064.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medacta USA, Inc.$287K
- Johnson & Johnson$40K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$23K
- Intellijoint Surgical Inc.$22K
- Smith+Nephew$9K
- Zimmer Biomet$678
- plus $2K from 13 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $7826.43 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Intellijoint Surgical Inc.$8K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$323,29585%
- Travel & lodging$45,80712%
- Food & beverage$12,9483%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 224 | $286,693 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 29 | $39,996 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 22 | $22,801 |
| Intellijoint Surgical Inc. | 12 | $21,567 |
| Smith+Nephew | 29 | $8,556 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 8 | $678 |
| Stryker | 7 | $314 |
| Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC | 2 | $253 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $251 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 12 | $235 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $151 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $127 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 2 | $124 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $69 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $51 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $42 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Vertex | 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.
- GMK SPHERE$112,815
- GMK Sphere Revision System$80,076
- STRATAFIX$38,024
- AMISTEM$24,194
- Intellijoint HIP$20,906
- DERMABOND PRINEO$19,470
- DERMABOND$18,537
- M-VIZION$15,700
- DERMABOND Portfolio$13,500
- SURGICEL Family of Absorbable Hemostats$13,500
- SURGIFLO Hemostatic Matrix Family of Products$13,500
- Kincise Surgical Automated System$11,250
- MOTO UNI$8,178
- AMIStem H Femoral Stems$6,760
- MONOCRYL$5,460
- VICRYL$3,120
- GMK$2,391
- Kincise$1,800
- QUADRA$1,192
- GMK EFFICIENCY$1,050
How this compares
$382,050 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 587 orthopaedic surgery providers in New Jersey.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 39 | $2,309 |
| Meloxicam | 112 | $312 |
| Methylprednisolone | 27 | $187 |
| Amoxicillin | 68 | $161 |
| Gabapentin | 24 | $126 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 16 | $45 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Princeton
- Jeffrey AbramsPrinceton$1.5M
- Hari BezwadaPrinceton$346K
- Frederick SongPrinceton$64K
- Michael KellyHackensack$9.7M
- Mark HartzbandParamus$9.4M
- Randal BetzLawrenceville$3M
- Luke AustinSewell$2.9M
- Kenneth MontgomeryMorristown$2.7M
- Zachary PostEgg Harbor Township$1.7M
- Harlan LevineMontvale$1.5M
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.