Has John Bracey, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,993 in general payments to John Bracey, MD across 11 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 John Bracey, 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 John Bracey, 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.

John Bracey, MD

Hand Surgery · Little Rock, ARNPI 1922325737

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $2,322 of the $2,993 with a category attached, or 77.6%. Midsouth Orthopedics Inc. accounts for 77.6% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,378 and has fallen 93.2% since, to $162 in 2025.

$2,993in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 11 payments — averaging $272.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Midsouth Orthopedics Inc.$2K
Axogen$321
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$186
Acumed LLC$101
Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$51
Exsomed Corporation$13

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$67122%
Education$2,32278%

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
Midsouth Orthopedics Inc.	1	$2,322
Axogen	4	$321
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$186
Acumed LLC	2	$101
Checkpoint Surgical, Inc	1	$51
Exsomed Corporation	1	$13

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.

TENOGLIDE$116

How this compares

Too few hand surgery providers in Arkansasto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$101,447

Medicare patients

186

Services billed

768

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
Gabapentin	75	$1,255
Clindamycin Hcl	19	$224
Meloxicam	22	$58

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other hand surgery in Little Rock

David BlackLittle Rock$13K
Sean MorellLittle Rock$4K
Brian NortonLittle Rock$3K
George FrazierLittle Rock$2K
Matthew BurnLittle Rock$2K
Jeanine AnderssonLittle Rock$300
John StephensonLittle Rock$119
Theresa WyrickLittle Rock$15
Andreas ChenRogers$16K
Jesse AbelerNorth Little Rock$10K

See the full list for Arkansas →

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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