Bryan Frentz, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · McComb, MSNPI 1720085517
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $70,833 of the $76,302 with a category attached, or 92.8%. Fuse Medical, Inc. accounts for 97.7% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $48,074 and has fallen 99.6% since, to $176 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MS 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.
Across 59 payments — averaging $1293.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Fuse Medical, Inc.$75K
- Stryker$936
- Next Science LLC$156
- CPM Medical Consultants, LLC$145
- Amgen$115
- Vertex$90
- plus $344 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$70,83393%
- Travel & lodging$3,9395%
- Food & beverage$1,5292%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fuse Medical, Inc. | 15 | $74,516 |
| Stryker | 9 | $936 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $156 |
| CPM Medical Consultants, LLC | 2 | $145 |
| Amgen | 7 | $115 |
| Vertex | 5 | $90 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $65 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $45 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $27 |
| UOC USA Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $17 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $14 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $10 |
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
$76,302 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 170 orthopaedic surgery providers in Mississippi.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 130 | $1,501 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 154 | $1,033 |
| Gabapentin | 44 | $299 |
| Celecoxib | 14 | $197 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 21 | $184 |
| Cephalexin | 16 | $116 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 41 | $91 |
| Meloxicam | 33 | $77 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 11 | $15 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in McComb
- Matthew GravesJackson$1.2M
- George van OstenTupelo$322K
- Edward HobgoodJackson$267K
- Hanna MitiasNew Albany$249K
- Stephen SouthworthTupelo$160K
- Jamey BurrowJackson$130K
- Jeff AlmandJackson$109K
- Spencer MontgomeryJackson$90K
- Larry FieldJackson$88K
- Joseph CoxGulfport$84K
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.