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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,423 in general payments to Brian Mercer, MD across 55 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 Mercer, 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 Mercer, 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 Mercer, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1649680489

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,423in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 55 payments — averaging $98.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$3K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
Synthes GmbH$835
Zimmer Biomet$202
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$180
Medtronic$145

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,77833%
Food & beverage$2,98055%
Education$66512%

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
Globus Medical(2 entities)	38	$2,573
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	10	$1,489
Synthes GmbH	1	$835
Zimmer Biomet	3	$202
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$180
Medtronic(2 entities)	2	$145

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

$5,423 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,079 orthopaedic surgery providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$208,003

Medicare patients

453

Services billed

2,220

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
Gabapentin	395	$2,350
Diclofenac Sodium	45	$1,625
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	40	$326
Methocarbamol	23	$216
Methylprednisolone	35	$175
Tizanidine Hcl	20	$152
Meloxicam	49	$109
Ibuprofen	15	$72
Naproxen	17	$67

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in New York

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Lawrence LenkeNew York$26.8M
Edwin SuNew York$14.1M
William RicciNew York$11.6M
Steven HaasNew York$11.5M
Giles ScuderiNew York$10.9M
Joseph ZuckermanNew York$9.9M
Evan FlatowNew York$9.6M
Bradford ParsonsNew York$9.4M
Geoffrey WestrichNew York$8M

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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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