Nicholas Brown, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Maywood, ILNPI 1972899748
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $150,487 of the $220,429 with a category attached, or 68.3%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Linkbio Corp at 35.2% of the total. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 259 payments — averaging $851.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Linkbio Corp$78K
- Microport Orthopedics Inc$76K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$48K
- Smith+Nephew$9K
- Omnilife Science, Inc$4K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- plus $4K from 12 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $9560.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$19K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$150,48768%
- Speaking & faculty fees$27,23112%
- Travel & lodging$30,58814%
- Food & beverage$12,0565%
- Education$670%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Linkbio Corp | 16 | $77,634 |
| Microport Orthopedics Inc | 100 | $75,956 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 50 | $47,511 |
| Smith+Nephew | 20 | $9,333 |
| Omnilife Science, Inc | 9 | $4,147 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 23 | $1,500 |
| Shalby Advanced Technologies, Inc. | 6 | $1,052 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 5 | $1,049 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 13 | $867 |
| Stryker | 7 | $420 |
| Next Science LLC | 3 | $208 |
| Lima USA, Inc. | 1 | $165 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $153 |
| Conformis, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $130 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $111 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Abbott | 1 | $14 |
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.
- MPO Medial Pivot Knee$74,355
- ATTUNE$46,360
- Legion Revision$7,813
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$7,553
- Legion$7,498
- Kincise Surgical Automated System$3,921
- ACTIS$1,297
- CKS- Vitalite$1,201
- CONSENSUS KNEE SYSTEM$1,201
- DJO Surgical Empowr Knee System$975
- Corin Knees$900
- Apollo Knee (FKA OMNIBotics 3.0)$900
- Engage Partial Knee System$407
- Journey II$392
- TRIGEN InterTAN$330
- JOURNEY$291
- Velys$233
- CONSENSUS HIP SYSTEM$220
- Taperset Reduced Distal Profile$220
- Acetabular Shell$220
How this compares
$220,429 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 844 orthopaedic surgery providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $19 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Maywood
- Adam SchiffMaywood$806K
- Dane SalazarMaywood$348K
- Nickolas GarbisMaywood$179K
- Daniel SchmittMaywood$125K
- Peter BonuttiEffingham$24.3M
- Steven HaddadGlenview$12.6M
- Aaron RosenbergChicago$12.4M
- Treg BrownHerrin$6.6M
- Wayne GoldsteinMorton Grove$4.9M
- Steven ChudikWestmont$4.1M
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.