Brian McWhorter, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery · Mesa, AZNPI 1114117710
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 184 payments — averaging $57.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$4K
- Stryker$2K
- Exactech, Inc.$1K
- Smith+Nephew$558
- Encore Medical, LP$423
- Mimedx Group, Inc.$411
- plus $1K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,21830%
- Food & beverage$6,83064%
- Education$6056%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 30 | $4,355 |
| Stryker | 27 | $2,155 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 4 | $1,303 |
| Smith+Nephew | 40 | $558 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 4 | $423 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 18 | $411 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 8 | $279 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $131 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 3 | $112 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $101 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $88 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $78 |
| Avanos Medical | 3 | $77 |
| Abbott | 3 | $63 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $36 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Vericel Corporation | 2 | $28 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $28 |
| Theragen, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Otto Bock Healthcare LP | 1 | $26 |
| Impactortho, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $21 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Team_makena_llc | 1 | $14 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $13 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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.
- Persona$1,801
- Oxford$1,479
- NOVATION HIP$1,119
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$882
- MAKO$570
- ROSA$295
- DJO Surgical TaperFill Hip System$275
- mymobility Platform$191
- ALTEON$167
- DJO Surgical Empowr Knee System$150
- DJO Surgical Match Point System$150
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$125
- DJO SURGICAL$117
- SYNFIX Evolution$115
- VIPER$115
How this compares
$10,653 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 377 orthopaedic surgery providers in Arizona.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 117 | $1,484 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 56 | $366 |
| Gabapentin | 37 | $268 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 25 | $193 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 16 | $137 |
| Methylprednisolone | 17 | $96 |
| Meloxicam | 11 | $38 |
| Amoxicillin | 23 | $21 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Mesa
- Joseph GimbelPhoenix$19.4M
- Evan LedermanPhoenix$13.4M
- James ChowPhoenix$6.2M
- Michael McKeePhoenix$3.4M
- Henry ClarkePhoenix$1.9M
- Samuel HarmsenPhoenix$1.1M
- Mark CampbellSun City West$894K
- Maegen WallacePhoenix$832K
- John LankenauLake Havasu City$669K
- Paul GauseScottsdale$614K
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.