Michael Brager, MD
Sports Medicine · Livonia, MINPI 1164497194
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,054 of the $2,669 with a category attached, or 76.9%. It is spread thinly across 24 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 79 payments — averaging $33.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$615
- Smith+Nephew$350
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$265
- Bioventus LLC$191
- Abbott$165
- Pinnacle, Inc$138
- plus $945 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$61523%
- Food & beverage$2,05477%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 1 | $615 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $350 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 19 | $265 |
| Bioventus LLC | 8 | $191 |
| Abbott | 2 | $165 |
| Pinnacle, Inc | 6 | $138 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $133 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $131 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 10 | $129 |
| Vericel Corporation | 4 | $112 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 4 | $100 |
| Orthogenrx Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $51 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $21 |
| Embody, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| BD | 1 | $20 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $19 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| DJO, LLC | 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.
How this compares
$2,669 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 145 sports medicine providers in Michigan.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 130 | $310 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 12 | $150 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 21 | $118 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 28 | $52 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Livonia
- Jonathan StoddardLivonia$4K
- Tariq AwanFarmington Hills$113K
- Michael YusafAuburn Hills$101K
- Jack PinneyMidland$67K
- William KestoNovi$62K
- Kendall HamiltonGrand Rapids$61K
- Carl WierksGrand Rapids$59K
- Manuel SchubertYpsilanti$42K
- Hussein SaadDearborn$40K
- Vasilios MoutzourosDetroit$40K
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.