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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $90,707 in general payments to Brian Scholl, MD across 72 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 Scholl, 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 Scholl, 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 Scholl, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Huntsville, ALNPI 1801857032

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $72,719 of the $90,707 with a category attached, or 80.2%. Mirus, LLC accounts for 81.1% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in AL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$90,707in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 72 payments — averaging $1259.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Mirus, LLC$74K
Medtronic$10K
Curiteva, Inc.$6K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$472
Si-bone, Inc.$369
Abbott$160
plus $150 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$72,71980%
Consulting fees$13,96015%
Travel & lodging$1,1921%
Food & beverage$2,8363%

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
Mirus, LLC	13	$73,551
Medtronic(2 entities)	13	$10,076
Curiteva, Inc.	7	$5,928
Alphatec Spine, Inc	5	$472
Si-bone, Inc.	20	$369
Abbott	8	$160
Globus Medical	2	$70
Prime Surgical, LLC	1	$24
Johnson & Johnson	1	$22
Baxter Healthcare	1	$18
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$16

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.

EUROPA Pedicle Screw System$71,613
CYGNUS Anterior Cervical Plate$41,721
MiRus 3DR Lumbar Interbody System$20,187
IO Expandable Lumbar Interbody$20,187
RIGEL 3DR Cervical Interbody$20,187
Mazor X Stealth Edition$1,620
MazorX - Renaissance$1,215
O-ARM-Spine$117

How this compares

$90,707 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 319 orthopaedic surgery providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$686,987

Medicare patients

727

Services billed

2,764

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	511	$4,736
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	422	$4,704
Methocarbamol	269	$2,034
Pregabalin	104	$1,773
Tramadol Hcl	351	$1,554
Calcitonin-SalmonCalcitonin,salmon,synthetic	23	$1,451
Gabapentin	125	$1,430
Meloxicam	241	$1,351
Celecoxib	31	$1,106
Methylprednisolone	97	$847
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	66	$486
Tizanidine Hcl	42	$293
Naproxen	15	$231
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	17	$150
Promethazine Hcl	12	$124

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Huntsville

Bradley WillsHuntsville$97K
Jeffrey DugasBirmingham$11.5M
Benton EmblomBirmingham$3M
Herrick SiegelBirmingham$1.2M
Paul CanaleDaphne$609K
Kenneth MooreBirmingham$342K
Joseph SherrillBirmingham$221K
Jonathan QuadeBirmingham$217K
Lawrence LemakVestavia$216K
Ginger BryantBirmingham$209K

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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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