Reid Brown, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Louisville, KYNPI 1083616908
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $33,920 of the $41,656 with a category attached, or 81.4%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 98.7% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $39,705 and has fallen 99.7% since, to $125 in 2025.
Across 57 payments — averaging $730.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$41K
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$214
- Next Science LLC$176
- Medacta USA, Inc.$40
- Vertex$35
- Innovation Technologies Inc$34
- plus $56 from 4 others
Across 14 payments — averaging $1106.07 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.
- Smith+Nephew$15K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,0763%
- Speaking & faculty fees$33,92081%
- Travel & lodging$4,73211%
- Food & beverage$1,9295%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 44 | $41,101 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 5 | $214 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $176 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Vertex | 1 | $35 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $34 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $4 |
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.
- Navio Surgical System$32,589
- Oxinium Hips$30,600
- REDAPT Revision Hip System$20,856
- POLARSTEM$20,649
- Anthology$17,158
- R3$16,763
- POLARCUP$13,980
- Birmingham Hip Resurfacing$13,838
- Legion Revision$2,769
- Journey II XR$1,416
- VISIONAIRE Cutting Guides$992
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$937
- HIP7$430
- Xperience$176
- BlastX$176
- SurgX$176
- JII Unicondylar Knee System$148
- RI.HIP NAVIGATION$147
- EVOS$142
- R3 ACETABULAR$142
How this compares
$41,656 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 322 orthopaedic surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 | 191 | $1,471 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 51 | $620 |
| Cephalexin | 130 | $206 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 79 | $177 |
| Meloxicam | 121 | $132 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 63 | $118 |
| Methylprednisolone | 15 | $71 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 12 | $54 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $22 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 16 | $13 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Louisville
- Arthur MalkaniLouisville$9.6M
- Jonathan YerasimidesLouisville$4.3M
- John LewisLouisville$1.5M
- Akbar NawabLouisville$1M
- Joseph GreeneLouisville$581K
- George QuillLouisville$304K
- Rodolfo Zamora RendichLouisville$292K
- Richard SweetLouisville$238K
- Frank BonnarensLouisville$146K
- Ryan EadsLouisville$99K
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.