Has Christopher Brown, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,301,508 in general payments to Christopher Brown, MD across 392 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 Christopher Brown, 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 Christopher Brown, 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.

Christopher Brown, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Durham, NCNPI 1467567735

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,538,509 of the $2,301,508 with a category attached, or 66.8%. Globus Medical accounts for 81.9% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,050,389 and has fallen 87.6% since, to $130,589 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in NC 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.

$2,301,508in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 392 payments — averaging $5871.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$1.9M
Alphatec Spine, Inc$403K
Sanara Medtech Inc.$11K
MML US, Inc.$350
Centinel Spine, LLC$169
Zimmer Biomet$161
plus $707 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$1,538,50967%
Consulting fees$626,75027%
Speaking & faculty fees$10,8230%
Travel & lodging$108,7675%
Food & beverage$16,4211%
Entertainment$2370%

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
Globus Medical(2 entities)	98	$1,885,723
Alphatec Spine, Inc	262	$403,435
Sanara Medtech Inc.	15	$10,962
MML US, Inc.	3	$350
Centinel Spine, LLC	1	$169
Zimmer Biomet	2	$161
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	1	$121
Medtronic	1	$114
Bioventus LLC	2	$112
Si-bone, Inc.	3	$105
Abiomed	1	$99
Cerapedics Inc.	1	$57
Trackx Technology, Inc.	1	$54
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.	1	$46

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.

VuePoint$927,228
Precept$927,228
Modulus$549,566
XLIF$507,525
RELINE$500,138
Leverage$459,315
Other - Miscellaneous$356,985
NVM5$95,132
Solus ALIF$93,336
AMP$23,750
LTX$23,750
LTP$23,750
CellerateRx$10,870
LIF$5,080
MaXcess$2,194
Pulse$2,158
RISE-L$1,161
Invictus MIS$892
TLIF$343
ReActiv8$339

How this compares

$2,301,508 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 845 orthopaedic surgery providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$487,684

Medicare patients

595

Services billed

1,806

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
Tizanidine Hcl	123	$1,364
Gabapentin	91	$1,184
Oxycodone Hcl	120	$768
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	27	$344
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	31	$292
Hydromorphone Hcl	34	$260
Methylprednisolone	31	$230
Prednisone	91	$164
Celecoxib	11	$155
Ibuprofen	12	$121
Methocarbamol	18	$98
Tramadol Hcl	35	$86
Meloxicam	11	$41
Diazepam	12	$40

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Durham

William JiranekDurham$6.4M
Thomas VailDurham$5.7M
Mark EasleyDurham$4M
Michael BolognesiDurham$2.3M
Samuel AdamsDurham$1.8M
James NunleyDurham$1.6M
James DeorioDurham$1.3M
Richard MatherDurham$711K
Marc RichardDurham$643K
David RuchDurham$321K

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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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