Has Stephen Brockmeier, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,569,560 in general payments to Stephen Brockmeier, MD across 678 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 Stephen Brockmeier, 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 Stephen Brockmeier, 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.

Stephen Brockmeier, MD

Sports Medicine · Charlottesville, VANPI 1467662791

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,877,540 of the $2,569,560 with a category attached, or 73.1%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Exactech, Inc. at 40.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $649,426, 5.1 times the $127,701 reported in 2019. Among sports medicine clinicians in VA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$2,569,560in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 678 payments — averaging $3789.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Exactech, Inc.$1.1M
Zimmer Biomet$876K
Arthrex$638K
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$2K
Fortis Surgical, LLC$1K
Stryker$612
plus $948 from 8 others

$42,544in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $2502.59 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.

Arthrex$39K
Zimmer Biomet$4K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$1,877,54073%
Consulting fees$310,95312%
Speaking & faculty fees$286,45611%
Travel & lodging$77,0443%
Food & beverage$17,5671%

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
Exactech, Inc.	169	$1,050,909
Zimmer Biomet	56	$875,785
Arthrex	423	$638,172
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$2,122
Fortis Surgical, LLC	12	$1,013
Stryker	6	$612
Encore Medical, LP	1	$432
COSA Medical, LLC	1	$123
Catalyst Orthoscience	1	$115
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$110
Smith+Nephew	2	$87
Johnson & Johnson	2	$49
FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc	1	$20
Medacta USA, Inc.	1	$12

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.

EQUINOXE$1,047,762
Comprehensive Shoulder System$420,093
Comprehensive Shoulder$264,741
ARTHREX$180,521
COMPR AUG MINI CPTRD PN PLCMNT GD LG (SUP)$146,144
OSSEOTI RECONSTRUCTIVE SYSTEM$26,363
Comprehensive Reverse$10,125
Comprehensive Anatomic$7,500
Signature Glenoid Guides$7,000
SHOULDER SUTURE CERCLAGE CERCLAGE$6,046
HTX-011$2,122
DJO SURGICAL$1,297
EXACTECHGPS$556
Comprehensive Instruments$500
SAMURAI$169
ALPHAVENT$155
AEQUALIS PERFORM$155
TORNIER PERFORM REVERSED AUGMENTED GLENOID$155
EQUINOXE PHX SYSTEM$153
SHOULDER IMPLANTS SWIVELOCKS KNOTLESS$124

How this compares

$2,569,560 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 171 sports medicine providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$216,635

Medicare patients

383

Services billed

658

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
Ampicillin Sodium	12	$1,852
Diclofenac Sodium	13	$111

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other sports medicine in Charlottesville

David DiduchCharlottesville$3.8M
Brian WernerCharlottesville$1.2M
Mark MillerCharlottesville$92K
Frank GwathmeyCharlottesville$42K
Matthew DeaseyCharlottesville$39K
Eric CarsonCharlottesville$12K
Thorp DavisMechanicsville$3M
William NordtRichmond$2.6M
Justin GriffinVirginia Beach$1.5M
Kevin BonnerVirginia Beach$1.1M

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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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