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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,317 in general payments to Stephen Brown, MD across 43 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 Brown, 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 Brown, 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 Brown, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Rome, GANPI 1669422937

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,317in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 43 payments — averaging $30.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$657
Zimmer Biomet$133
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$114
Amgen$60
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$47
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$45
plus $262 from 12 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,317100%

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	13	$657
Zimmer Biomet	2	$133
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	4	$114
Amgen(2 entities)	4	$60
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$47
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$45
Vertex	1	$39
Orthogenrx Inc.	2	$31
Bioventus LLC	2	$29
Smith+Nephew	2	$29
Pfizer	2	$27
ERMI LLC	1	$25
Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$16
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$15
Avanos Medical	1	$15
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$15
Heraeus Medical, LLC.	1	$12
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$9

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.

VA-LCP$142
NA$142
TFN-Advance$142
FMS$141
VAPR$141

How this compares

$1,317 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 654 orthopaedic surgery providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$188,206

Medicare patients

395

Services billed

11,558

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	115	$1,104
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	110	$1,061
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	72	$681
Methylprednisolone	80	$502
Meloxicam	179	$477
Methocarbamol	49	$275
Tramadol Hcl	78	$241
Ibuprofen	40	$170
Naproxen	13	$142
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	14	$53
Amoxicillin	31	$51
Ondansetron Hcl	11	$44
Diazepam	13	$11

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Rome

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Charles DecookCumming$48.3M
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Daxes BanitWarner Robins$5.7M
John DorchakColumbus$3.8M
Daniel SilcoxAtlanta$3.4M
Dennis DevitoAtlanta$1.5M
George GuildCumming$1.4M
Jon MinterAlpharetta$1.4M
Tuan BuiLawrenceville$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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