Jacob Brubacher, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Kansas City, KSNPI 1972824217
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $8,000 of the $11,294 with a category attached, or 70.8%. Medartis Inc. accounts for 80.2% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $9,092, more than ten times the $788 reported in 2019.
Across 17 payments — averaging $664.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medartis Inc.$9K
- Sonex Health, Inc.$1K
- Titan Surgical Group, LLC$788
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$134
- Integrum Inc.$72
- Globus Medical$18
- plus $34 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,00071%
- Travel & lodging$1,58614%
- Food & beverage$9208%
- Education$7887%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medartis Inc. | 3 | $9,057 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 8 | $1,191 |
| Titan Surgical Group, LLC | 1 | $788 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $134 |
| Integrum Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $18 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Stryker | 1 | $17 |
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.
- APTUS$9,057
- Sx-One Microknife$596
- ULTRAGUIDECTR$417
- ULTRAGUIDETFR$417
- Geminus$134
- Align$134
- IJS$134
- Implate$134
How this compares
$11,294 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 197 orthopaedic surgery providers in Kansas.
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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Kansas City
- David AndersonKansas City$490K
- Brandon CarlsonKansas City$299K
- Brent WiseKansas City$97K
- John SchroeppelKansas City$28K
- Mitchell BirtKansas City$26K
- Spencer FalconKansas City$23K
- Bryan VopatKansas City$22K
- Katie SmeltzerKansas City$19K
- Everett WilkinsonKansas City$12K
- Jacob DeisterTopeka$185K
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.