Brian Drake, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery · Billings, MTNPI 1982883641
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $54,235 of the $84,433 with a category attached, or 64.2%. Globus Medical accounts for 97.5% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $19,877, 6.3 times the $3,156 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MT 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 98 payments — averaging $861.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$82K
- Stryker$2K
- Polynovo North America LLC$234
- Radius Health, Inc.$46
- Merck$19
- Reprise Biomedical, Inc.$15
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$54,23564%
- Consulting fees$14,43817%
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,40010%
- Travel & lodging$5,0066%
- Food & beverage$2,3543%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 60 | $82,326 |
| Stryker | 33 | $1,793 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $234 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Merck | 1 | $19 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Distal Femur Plate System$22,151
- Autobahn$15,888
- Anthem$13,027
- TROCH NAIL$8,400
- Tibial Nail$7,025
- Distal Femoral Nail$6,913
- Clavical Fixation (16-186)$3,814
- AUTOBAHN Tibia Nail$2,720
- Distal Femur Plate$1,612
- Excelsius Robotics System$390
- Novosorb BTM$234
- MATTA$174
- VARIAX$150
- MAKO$119
- PELVIS II$118
- AXSOS$118
- GAMMA$108
How this compares
$84,433 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 76 orthopaedic surgery providers in Montana.
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 | 32 | $175 |
| Cephalexin | 27 | $122 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 14 | $82 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Billings
- Matthew KopplinBillings$35K
- Steven KleppsBillings$16K
- Julia QuirionBillings$12K
- Gregory GrenierBillings$10K
- Zachary ScheerBillings$6K
- Kyle LybrandBillings$4K
- James ElliottBillings$4K
- Heather HansenBillings$2K
- Alan DacreBillings$2K
- Gregory McDowellBillings$685
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.