Has Robert Brager, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,088 in general payments to Robert Brager, MD across 132 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 Robert Brager, 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 Robert Brager, 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.

Robert Brager, MD

Otolaryngology · Mechanicsville, VANPI 1568460087

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,099 of the $7,088 with a category attached, or 86.0%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Aerin Medical Inc. at 30.3% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,501, 3.1 times the $484 reported in 2019.

$7,088in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 132 payments — averaging $53.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Aerin Medical Inc.$2K
Medtronic$1K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
GSK$583
Sanofi$546
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$535
plus $860 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$93313%
Food & beverage$6,09986%
Education$561%

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
Aerin Medical Inc.	28	$2,146
Medtronic(2 entities)	13	$1,277
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	8	$1,141
GSK	20	$583
Sanofi	20	$546
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	15	$535
Intersect ENT, Inc.	7	$311
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	9	$238
Acclarent, Inc	3	$99
Smith+Nephew	2	$59
Stryker	2	$46
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$26
Johnson & Johnson	1	$25
Novartis	1	$23
AstraZeneca	1	$19
Merck	1	$15

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

$7,088 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 241 otolaryngology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$206,266

Medicare patients

674

Services billed

2,057

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
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth	72	$7,198
Fluticasone Propionate	194	$4,189
Mometasone Furoate	82	$2,690
Ipratropium Bromide	79	$1,998
Azelastine Hcl	57	$1,984
Prednisone	81	$1,328
Cefdinir	65	$1,316
Montelukast Sodium	85	$482
Ofloxacin	33	$462
Methylprednisolone	78	$450
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	45	$399
Famotidine	63	$319
Clindamycin Hcl	34	$314
Cephalexin	11	$243
Mupirocin	34	$199

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Mechanicsville

Laurence OhalloranAnnandale$2.9M
Joseph HanNorfolk$1.8M
Ryan NordRichmond$454K
Paul LenkowskiRoanoke$282K
Nipun ChhabraLeesburg$178K
Kent LamNorfolk$127K
Spencer PayneCharlottesville$45K
Jose MattosCharlottesville$24K
Craig DerkayNorfolk$21K
Heath DreyfussMc Lean$19K

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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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