Has Edward Middlebrooks, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $16,983 in general payments to Edward Middlebrooks, MD across 120 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 Edward Middlebrooks, 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 Edward Middlebrooks, 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.

Edward Middlebrooks, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Lawrenceville, GANPI 1801810932

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $10,342 of the $16,983 with a category attached, or 60.9%. Globus Medical accounts for 69.6% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in GA, where the typical reported total is $16,983.

$16,983in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 120 payments — averaging $141.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$12K
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$3K
Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC$911
Medtronic$850
Si-bone, Inc.$731
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$85
plus $44 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,87511%
Travel & lodging$10,34261%
Food & beverage$4,74728%
Education$190%

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)	72	$11,825
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	17	$2,537
Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC	8	$911
Medtronic(2 entities)	8	$850
Si-bone, Inc.	11	$731
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	1	$85
Cerapedics Inc.	1	$19
Smith+Nephew	1	$14
Nanovis LLC	1	$11

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

$16,983 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 57 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$234,256

Medicare patients

432

Services billed

3,742

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
Celecoxib	60	$4,163
Gabapentin	224	$1,723
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	175	$971
Diclofenac Sodium	53	$651
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	78	$570
Meloxicam	227	$521
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	45	$431
Tramadol Hcl	209	$414
Tizanidine Hcl	74	$360
Methylprednisolone	36	$212
Ibuprofen	18	$99
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	20	$85
Pregabalin	11	$83
Diazepam	19	$12

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Lawrenceville

Tomas KuprysLawrenceville$2K
John HellerAtlanta$4.2M
Scott BodenAtlanta$1.5M
Justin BundyAugusta$1.4M
John RheeAtlanta$1.1M
Tapan DaftariAustell$759K
Brad PrybisStockbridge$659K
Paul JeffordsAtlanta$651K
Raphael RoybalSavannah$400K
Hewatt SimsDouglas$376K

See the full list for Georgia →

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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