Brian Mullis, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Indianapolis, INNPI 1598738437
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $476,665 of the $632,469 with a category attached, or 75.4%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 76.2% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in IN 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 210 payments — averaging $3011.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$482K
- Smith+Nephew$106K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$22K
- EBI, LLC$8K
- Synthes GmbH$6K
- KCI USA, Inc.$4K
- plus $5K from 8 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $3694.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$8K
- Zimmer Biomet$3K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$476,66575%
- Consulting fees$51,1738%
- Speaking & faculty fees$80,89013%
- Travel & lodging$15,5682%
- Food & beverage$8,1351%
- Education$370%
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 | 36 | $481,638 |
| Smith+Nephew | 74 | $106,450 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 23 | $21,942 |
| EBI, LLC | 4 | $8,173 |
| Synthes GmbH | 9 | $5,847 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 4 | $3,516 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 26 | $1,913 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $1,103 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 20 | $454 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $425 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 7 | $409 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 3 | $396 |
| UOC USA Inc | 1 | $188 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Affixus$367,690
- EVOS$171,548
- Affixus Humeral Nail$108,975
- EVOS MINI$61,651
- TRIGEN InterTAN$34,566
- Taylor Spatial Frame$32,880
- TRIGEN$23,358
- SPATIAL FRAME$19,931
- TrueLok$17,104
- ILIZAROV$13,738
- Biomet EBI Bone Healing System$8,193
- EBI OsteoGen Implantable Bone Growth Stimulator$7,902
- Biomet OrthoPak Non-invasive Bone Growth Stimulator System$7,902
- TL-HEX TRUELOK HEXAPOD SYSTEM$5,534
- PREVENA$3,941
- PD-Foot&Ankle-New Product$2,627
- T2$702
- V.A.C. VERAFLO$425
- U2, PSA, Conformity, U-Motion II and USTAR II$188
- BIO4$175
How this compares
$632,469 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 400 orthopaedic surgery providers in Indiana.
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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Indianapolis
- David FisherIndianapolis$5.9M
- Michael BerendIndianapolis$4M
- Sanford KunkelIndianapolis$1.9M
- Hill HastingsIndianapolis$1.6M
- Michael CrossIndianapolis$870K
- Dean MaarIndianapolis$589K
- Russell SwannIndianapolis$135K
- Thomas FischerIndianapolis$117K
- Wesley LackeyIndianapolis$115K
- Mark DillonIndianapolis$98K
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.