Stephen Brown, MD
Sports Medicine · Elkhorn, NENPI 1801827431
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,279 of the $8,163 with a category attached, or 64.7%. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson at 31.7% of the total.
Across 123 payments — averaging $66.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$3K
- Conetic Solutions, Inc.$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- Stryker$569
- Baxter Healthcare$287
- Smith+Nephew$284
- plus $1K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,14226%
- Food & beverage$5,27965%
- Education$7429%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 30 | $2,590 |
| Conetic Solutions, Inc. | 16 | $1,694 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 15 | $1,591 |
| Stryker | 9 | $569 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $287 |
| Smith+Nephew | 7 | $284 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $214 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $193 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $142 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $86 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $61 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 3 | $40 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 2 | $34 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $29 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 3 | $16 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $13 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $12 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $7 |
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.
- INHANCE$1,153
- ATTUNE$660
- Comprehensive Shoulder System$626
- REUNION$291
- FLOSEAL$209
- AETOS Shoulder System$135
- AQUAMANTYS$130
- BIOLOX DELTA$125
- Ventix Anchor$112
- Ventix$111
- EXPAREL$110
- CellerateRx$107
- Comprehensive Nano$102
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$101
How this compares
$8,163 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 34 sports medicine providers in Nebraska.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 69 | $421 |
| Celecoxib | 14 | $271 |
| Cephalexin | 14 | $12 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Elkhorn
- Justin MakovickaElkhorn$56K
- Kimberly TurmanElkhorn$8K
- Hsueh Yu ChengElkhorn$5K
- Justin GreinerOmaha$47K
- Matthew TingleOmaha$32K
- Jace HeidenOmaha$14K
- Brett FischerFremont$8K
- Kellen HustonOmaha$7K
- Eric SamuelsonOmaha$7K
- Justin HarrisLincoln$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.