Has Tyler Brolin, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $336,180 in general payments to Tyler Brolin, MD across 367 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 Tyler Brolin, 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 Tyler Brolin, 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.

Tyler Brolin, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Collierville, TNNPI 1053601591

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $220,295 of the $336,180 with a category attached, or 65.5%. Arthrex accounts for 95.0% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $108,051, more than ten times the $7,639 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TN 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.

$336,180in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 367 payments — averaging $916.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$319K
Gentleman Orthopedic Solutions$12K
Encore Medical, LP$3K
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$875
Stryker$336
Zimmer Biomet$218
plus $1K from 13 others

$695,575in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 68 payments — averaging $10,229 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.

Orthofix Medical, Inc.$266K
Zimmer Biomet$231K
Arthrex$147K
DJO, LLC$52K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$73,58822%
Speaking & faculty fees$220,29566%
Travel & lodging$21,9127%
Food & beverage$10,3193%
Education$10,0673%

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
Arthrex	300	$319,206
Gentleman Orthopedic Solutions	36	$11,875
Encore Medical, LP	9	$2,552
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	1	$875
Stryker(2 entities)	3	$336
Zimmer Biomet	2	$218
Exactech, Inc.	1	$193
Alpha Orthopedic Systems	2	$155
Smith+Nephew	2	$144
Pylant Medical	1	$124
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$98
Crossroads Orthopedics, LLC	1	$97
Fortis Surgical, LLC	1	$88
Medacta USA, Inc.	1	$81
Saxum Surgical, Inc.	1	$45
Catalyst Orthoscience	1	$33
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$23
Kerecis Limited	1	$21
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$16

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.

DJO Surgical TaperFill Hip System$1,500
DJO Surgical Empowr Knee System$1,500
DJO Surgical Exprt Revision Hip$1,500
DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$946
FMS$875
VISUALIZATION$875
ARTHROPLASTY IMPLANTS SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY & FRACTURE UNIVERS$750
EQUINOXE$193
ARTHROPLASTY IMPLANTS SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY & FRACTURE REVERS$151
NA$149
ARTHROPLASTY INSTRUMENTS SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY & FRACTURE ECLIPSE$109
ARTHREX$104

How this compares

$336,180 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 381 orthopaedic surgery providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$452,413

Medicare patients

1,220

Services billed

8,188

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	50	$334
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	20	$121
Meloxicam	35	$91
Amoxicillin	88	$86
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	17	$77
Clindamycin Hcl	13	$52

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Collierville

Patrick ToyCollierville$130K
Paul BradyKnoxville$20M
Edwin SpencerKnoxville$2.5M
Jesse DotyChattanooga$2.3M
Thomas ThrockmortonGermantown$1.7M
Alton HunterColumbia$820K
Jefferson MorrisonNashville$678K
Michael BeebeMemphis$626K
Gregory PolkowskiNashville$526K
Matthew WillisNashville$498K

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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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