Brigham Au, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Arlington, TXNPI 1750510814
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 142 payments — averaging $443.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$43K
- US Implant Solutions, LLC$8K
- Synthes GmbH$4K
- Aap Implants Inc$3K
- Imbed Biosciences Inc.$3K
- Ortho Development Corporation$1K
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,8004%
- Speaking & faculty fees$38,18561%
- Travel & lodging$12,68920%
- Food & beverage$9,24615%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 53 | $42,684 |
| US Implant Solutions, LLC | 15 | $7,991 |
| Synthes GmbH | 3 | $3,659 |
| Aap Implants Inc | 6 | $2,908 |
| Imbed Biosciences Inc. | 22 | $2,771 |
| Ortho Development Corporation | 6 | $1,052 |
| Orthalign Inc | 4 | $561 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $244 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 4 | $230 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $162 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $143 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 2 | $96 |
| Stryker | 3 | $95 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $52 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $41 |
| Pylant Medical | 1 | $37 |
| Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Axogen | 1 | $20 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $20 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $14 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- EVOS$54,762
- TRIGEN$21,181
- TRIGEN InterTAN$17,291
- EVOS MINI$10,996
- Peri-Loc VLP$8,566
- Peri-Loc$8,566
- META TAN$8,191
- CANNULATED SCREWS$8,191
- Peri-Loc PFP$7,935
- SPATIAL FRAME$6,300
- TRIGEN Sureshot$887
- aap - LOQTEQ$800
- TRIGEN Femoral (FAN/TAN/Meta Nail)$631
- ORTHALIGN PLUS$561
- TRIGEN Meta-Nail$396
- Zynrelef$244
- Trivicta$239
- Pivot Bipolar$113
How this compares
$62,920 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 34 | $397 |
| Celecoxib | 34 | $273 |
| Tramadol Hcl-AcetaminophenTramadol Hcl/Acetaminophen | 21 | $234 |
| Dexamethasone | 23 | $150 |
| Ibuprofen | 34 | $145 |
| Gabapentin | 24 | $112 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 22 | $104 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 15 | $42 |
| Meloxicam | 13 | $13 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Arlington
- Mark KazewychArlington$893K
- Stephen BurkhartSan Antonio$185.3M
- Kirby HittTemple$9.1M
- J Richard EvansonPlano$8.1M
- Stefan KreuzerHouston$7M
- Robert GrahamAustin$6.3M
- Richard JonesDallas$6.3M
- Howard HarrisBedford$4.6M
- Tiffany HuynhHouston$4.6M
- Michael WirthSan Antonio$4.5M
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.