Has Bryan Emmerson, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $223,010 in general payments to Bryan Emmerson, MD across 39 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 Bryan Emmerson, 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 Bryan Emmerson, 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.

Bryan Emmerson, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Santa Barbara, CANPI 1700033099

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by other: $195,351 of the $223,010 with a category attached, or 87.6%. Encore Medical, LP accounts for 88.0% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $203,689 and has fallen 99.6% since, to $878 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in CA 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.

$223,010in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 39 payments — averaging $5718.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Encore Medical, LP$196K
Orthalign Inc$11K
Insight Medical Systems, Inc.$9K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$5K
Johnson & Johnson$286
Naviswiss, Inc.$242
plus $453 from 5 others

$20,443in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $3407.17 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

Orthalign Inc$20K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$15,5107%
Speaking & faculty fees$7,8003%
Travel & lodging$2,7281%
Food & beverage$1,6211%
Other$195,35188%

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
Encore Medical, LP	9	$196,229
Orthalign Inc	13	$11,261
Insight Medical Systems, Inc.	4	$9,404
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$5,135
Johnson & Johnson	3	$286
Naviswiss, Inc.	1	$242
Zimmer Biomet	2	$228
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$109
Stryker	1	$54
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$39
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$23

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

$223,010 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$509,644

Medicare patients

853

Services billed

4,705

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	206	$2,979
Celecoxib	53	$2,130
Naloxone Hcl	29	$2,048
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	196	$1,938
Tramadol Hcl	309	$746
Cephalexin	131	$627
Meloxicam	171	$444
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	57	$253
Dexamethasone	37	$168
Mupirocin	16	$118
Amoxicillin	26	$21

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Santa Barbara

Christopher ProctorSanta Barbara$673K
Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
Robert GorabOrange$13.6M
Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
Stephen HowellSacramento$9.4M
Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
Nirav AminPlacentia$5.6M
Tom NorrisSan Francisco$5.3M
Jay LiebermanLos Angeles$4.8M
Peter NewtonSan Diego$4.2M

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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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