Has Ernest Braxton, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $756,204 in general payments to Ernest Braxton, MD across 800 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 Ernest Braxton, 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 Ernest Braxton, 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.

Ernest Braxton, MD

Neurological Surgery · Edwards, CONPI 1407080716

Payments from drug & device makers

$756,204in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 800 payments — averaging $945.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$301K
Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus$83K
Globus Medical$61K
Stryker$59K
Spineart SA$51K
Boston Scientific$49K
plus $152K from 30 others

$110,346in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $4597.75 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Spinal Elements, Inc.$107K
Intrinsic Therapeutics$3K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$48,1409%
Consulting fees$207,91738%
Speaking & faculty fees$185,32334%
Travel & lodging$71,03213%
Food & beverage$36,3517%
Gifts$6870%
Entertainment$420%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	234	$301,471
Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus	60	$82,687
Globus Medical(2 entities)	47	$61,402
Stryker	59	$58,816
Spineart SA	8	$50,643
Boston Scientific	53	$48,935
Integrity Implants Inc.	67	$31,510
Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC	45	$29,987
GE HealthCare	15	$26,443
Cerapedics Inc.	17	$19,402
Xtant Medical Inc	9	$15,275
Spinal Elements, Inc.	67	$6,220
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc	9	$5,550
Alphatec Spine, Inc	16	$4,173
Amplify Surgical, Inc.	10	$3,814
Spineology Inc.	7	$1,843
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	14	$1,506
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	12	$1,298
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	14	$1,236
Nexus Spine, LLC	8	$1,070
MML US, Inc.	4	$467
Carlsmed, Inc.	3	$383
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	3	$333
Si-bone, Inc.	3	$296
Innovasis Inc	2	$282
Intrinsic Therapeutics	1	$190
Augmedics Inc.	1	$152
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$146
Johnson & Johnson	2	$141
Zimmer Biomet	1	$125
Centinel Spine, LLC	2	$115
Spineart USA Inc	2	$104
Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.	1	$102
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	1	$55
BK Medical Holding Company Inc.	1	$19
Mimedx Group, Inc.	1	$15

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.

FlareHawk$86,536
PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$43,155
CLYDESDALE$42,572
ACTIVL ARTIFICIAL DISC$27,694
RAVINE LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$23,500
LATERAL ACCESS SPINAL SYSTEM$21,960
OEC$20,022
I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$19,477
SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$17,818
ELSA ATP$17,478
MONUMENT$12,010
WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$10,800
CASCADIA$10,210
MARS Anterior Retractor$10,175
DIVERGENCE-L$9,949
MAZOR X SYSTEM$8,039
O-ARM-Spine$7,750
GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$7,326
WAVEWRITER ALPHA$7,324
CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$7,251

How this compares

$756,204 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 149 neurological surgery providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$274,211

Medicare patients

358

Services billed

1,172

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.

Other neurological surgery in Edwards

Sharad RajpalBoulder$2.8M
Chad PrusmackLone Tree$2.1M
Ali MuradPueblo$1.5M
Alan VillavicencioBoulder$1.3M
David OrmondAurora$1.1M
Peter FecciAurora$587K
Timothy WirtFort Collins$581K
Donn TurnerFort Collins$581K
Steven OjemannAurora$529K
Bradley DuhonLone Tree$386K

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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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