Mark Brenner, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Pinehurst, NCNPI 1184631335
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 138 payments — averaging $141.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$7K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$5K
- Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC$3K
- Stryker$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$757
- Southtech Orthopedics$543
- plus $1K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,95025%
- Travel & lodging$6,18032%
- Food & beverage$3,19216%
- Education$5,21727%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 58 | $7,114 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $5,066 |
| Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC | 17 | $3,278 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 12 | $1,479 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $757 |
| Southtech Orthopedics | 2 | $543 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 5 | $212 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $148 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $128 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 2 | $95 |
| Axogen | 1 | $87 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| Abbott | 2 | $54 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 4 | $54 |
| Medartis Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Vertex | 1 | $29 |
| Merck | 2 | $28 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $26 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $20 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $17 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $12 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $11 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 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.
- BIOLOX DELTA$4,950
- GLOBAL$4,950
- AXSOS$771
- INHANCE$672
- REUNION$242
- BioBrace 23mm$148
- COLINK 2$148
- QUANTUM$148
- HERCULES SUTURE ANCHOR SYSTEM$148
- IN2BONES USA$148
- BLUEPRINT PSI SYSTEM$137
- PROVENGE$128
- SIMPLICITI$125
- VANTAGE$122
How this compares
$19,538 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 845 orthopaedic surgery providers in North Carolina.
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 | 223 | $1,628 |
| Cephalexin | 306 | $1,267 |
| Methylprednisolone | 129 | $883 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 212 | $646 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 34 | $247 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 15 | $206 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 99 | $206 |
| Ibuprofen | 21 | $153 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 43 | $139 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 18 | $120 |
| Gabapentin | 31 | $115 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 12 | $92 |
| Meloxicam | 24 | $55 |
| Diazepam | 11 | $7 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Pinehurst
- Thomas FehringCharlotte$18.3M
- Walter BeaverCharlotte$7.4M
- Robert AndersonCharlotte$6.6M
- William JiranekDurham$6.4M
- John MasonCharlotte$6.2M
- Thomas VailDurham$5.7M
- William DavisCharlotte$5.2M
- John EllingtonCharlotte$5.2M
- Mark EasleyDurham$4.2M
- Carroll JonesCharlotte$3.9M
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.