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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,445 in general payments to Brian Flanagan, MD across 116 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 Flanagan, 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 Flanagan, 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 Flanagan, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Crystal Lake, ILNPI 1336428010

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,827 of the $7,445 with a category attached, or 78.3%. Stryker accounts for 93.2% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,895 and has fallen 53.1% since, to $889 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery clinicians in IL, where the typical reported total is $12,024.

$7,445in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 116 payments — averaging $64.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$7K
Intuitive Surgical$159
Enduromed, LLC$150
Zimmer Biomet$124
Nevro Corp.$74

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,61822%
Food & beverage$5,82778%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Stryker	110	$6,938
Intuitive Surgical	2	$159
Enduromed, LLC	1	$150
Zimmer Biomet	1	$124
Nevro Corp.	2	$74

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.

How this compares

$7,445 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 67 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$504,737

Medicare patients

757

Services billed

9,005

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	499	$13,059
Diclofenac Sodium	194	$3,592
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	149	$1,929
Tramadol Hcl	389	$1,541
Cefadroxil	153	$1,387
Methylprednisolone	233	$1,318
Meloxicam	317	$1,216
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	32	$929
Gabapentin	57	$444
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	35	$276
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	16	$174
Prednisone	29	$123
Amoxicillin	16	$11

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Crystal Lake

Wayne PaproskyWinfield$10.9M
Scott SporerWinfield$5.3M
Denis NamChicago$3.2M
Craig della ValleChicago$2.4M
Hany BedairChicago$1.1M
Linda SuleimanChicago$898K
Tad GerlingerChicago$642K
Henry FinnChicago$523K
Vasili KarasChicago$264K
Brett LevineChicago$250K

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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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