Stephane Braun, MD
Plastic Surgery · Nashville, TNNPI 1023192135
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (43.6%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 91.5% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,082, 7.7 times the $269 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for plastic surgery clinicians in TN, where the typical reported total is $2,631.
Across 23 payments — averaging $149.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Axogen$269
- Aesculap, Inc.$24
Across 317 payments — averaging $1092.75 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.
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$335K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$11K
- AbbVie$190
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,32539%
- Food & beverage$61518%
- Education$1,50044%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 21 | $3,147 |
| Axogen | 1 | $269 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
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
$3,440 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 89 plastic surgery providers in Tennessee.
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.
Other plastic surgery in Nashville
- George MaxwellNashville$48.3M
- Jacob UngerNashville$153K
- Brian TierneyNashville$52K
- James WendelNashville$36K
- Ronald GilmerNashville$36K
- Megan VucovichNashville$29K
- Mary GingrassNashville$15K
- Melinda HawsNashville$10K
- Michael GolinkoNashville$6K
- Donald GriffinNashville$5K
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.