Werner Brooks, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Hendersonville, NCNPI 1023058369
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 65 payments — averaging $25.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$256
- Bioventus LLC$123
- Zimmer Biomet$119
- Medtronic$105
- Vertex$97
- Inari Medical, Inc.$94
- plus $877 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,672100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 7 | $256 |
| Bioventus LLC | 6 | $123 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $119 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $105 |
| Vertex | 4 | $97 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 4 | $94 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 4 | $89 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $87 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $83 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $72 |
| Stryker | 3 | $66 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $65 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $62 |
| Abbott | 3 | $49 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 2 | $43 |
| Amgen | 2 | $37 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $26 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $21 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $18 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Kinex Medical Company LLC | 2 | $11 |
How this compares
$1,672 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 845 orthopaedic surgery providers in North Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 14 | $8,023 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 459 | $3,177 |
| Amoxicillin | 214 | $722 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 58 | $375 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 35 | $301 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 77 | $289 |
| Meloxicam | 97 | $229 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 44 | $190 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 36 | $126 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 37 | $124 |
| Diazepam | 15 | $11 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Hendersonville
- Erik OlssonHendersonville$511K
- Thomas FehringCharlotte$18.3M
- Walter BeaverCharlotte$7.4M
- Robert AndersonCharlotte$6.6M
- William JiranekDurham$6.4M
- John MasonCharlotte$6.2M
- Thomas VailDurham$5.7M
- William DavisCharlotte$5.2M
- John EllingtonCharlotte$5.2M
- Mark EasleyDurham$4.2M
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.