Harlan Bruner, MD
Neurological Surgery · Athens, GANPI 1487826079
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $71,381 of the $84,350 with a category attached, or 84.6%. Globus Medical accounts for 89.5% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $20,433, 8.8 times the $2,323 reported in 2019.
Across 146 payments — averaging $577.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$76K
- Medtronic$8K
- Zimmer Biomet$189
- Stryker$185
- Abbott$174
- Johnson & Johnson$100
- plus $586 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$71,38185%
- Consulting fees$2130%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,7003%
- Travel & lodging$4,8776%
- Food & beverage$4,9916%
- Education$1890%
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) | 66 | $75,516 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 42 | $7,599 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $189 |
| Stryker | 3 | $185 |
| Abbott | 4 | $174 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $100 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $80 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $75 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $44 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $35 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $32 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Novocure Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 1 | $8 |
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.
- SI-LOK Select$44,709
- SI-LOK$26,885
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$1,907
- ELSA, ELSA AL/ATP$1,551
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$1,013
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$270
- ELSA$175
- FORTRESS$165
- VECTRIS$162
- XLIF$160
- INTELLIS$159
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$153
- RIALTO SI FUSION SYSTEM$144
- RESTORE$130
- MARS 3V$126
- Proclaim IPG$124
- CREO$124
- RISE-L$121
- Excelsius - GPS$120
- ALLOGRAFT$109
How this compares
$84,350 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 201 neurological surgery providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 47 | $510 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 54 | $412 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 13 | $248 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Athens
- Bryan BarnesAthens$134K
- Viren VasudevaAthens$22K
- Regis HaidAtlanta$25.5M
- John CowanRome$3.2M
- Thomas MorrisonAtlanta$2.8M
- Christopher TomarasAtlanta$1.5M
- Daniel RefaiAtlanta$1.2M
- Gerald RodtsAtlanta$1.2M
- Betsy GrunchGainesville$1.1M
- James RobinsonAtlanta$993K
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.