Timothy Brown, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Rochester, MNNPI 1427347863
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $92,875 of the $124,275 with a category attached, or 74.7%. Stryker accounts for 86.8% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 160 payments — averaging $776.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$108K
- Synthes GmbH$15K
- Zimmer Biomet$451
- Johnson & Johnson$409
- Kerecis Limited$113
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$92
- plus $141 from 6 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $3289.00 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.
- Zimmer Biomet$16K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$92,87575%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,3006%
- Travel & lodging$20,02016%
- Food & beverage$4,0803%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 118 | $107,924 |
| Synthes GmbH | 22 | $15,145 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $451 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $409 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $113 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $92 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $30 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Vertex | 1 | $27 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $20 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$124,275 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 533 orthopaedic surgery providers in Minnesota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 125 | $2,845 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 216 | $1,606 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 25 | $412 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 66 | $245 |
| Meloxicam | 15 | $72 |
| Amoxicillin | 17 | $14 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Rochester
- Daniel BerryRochester$21.5M
- Mark PagnanoRochester$14.8M
- Robert TrousdaleRochester$12.2M
- John SperlingRochester$12.2M
- Shawn O'DriscollRochester$10.5M
- David LewallenRochester$8M
- Rafael SierraRochester$4.9M
- Joaquin Sanchez-SoteloRochester$4M
- Michael TauntonRochester$3.5M
- Arlen HanssenRochester$3.2M
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.