Has William Bragg, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $30,477 in general payments to William Bragg, MD across 89 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 William Bragg, 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 William Bragg, 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.

William Bragg, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Sacramento, CANPI 1942462155

Payments from drug & device makers

$30,477in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 89 payments — averaging $342.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$17K
Sequoia Surgical, Inc.$7K
Stryker$3K
Evolution Surgical, Inc$2K
Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc.$1K
Bioventus LLC$66
plus $63 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$13,00043%
Travel & lodging$2,4328%
Food & beverage$2,8569%
Education$11,49138%
Gifts$6972%

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	40	$17,039
Sequoia Surgical, Inc.	12	$6,728
Stryker(2 entities)	14	$3,284
Evolution Surgical, Inc	15	$2,078
Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc.	2	$1,218
Bioventus LLC	3	$66
Smith+Nephew	1	$23
Johnson & Johnson	1	$22
Vericel Corporation	1	$18

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.

AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$1,267
MAKO$773
Ascend Flex$697
BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$169
ARTHROPLASTY IMPLANTS ANATOMIC TOTAL SHOULDER ECLIPSE$115

How this compares

$30,477 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$187,196

Medicare patients

268

Services billed

1,756

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	87	$1,209
Diclofenac Sodium	22	$655
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	27	$149
Meloxicam	11	$51
Ondansetron Hcl	18	$40

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Christopher KreulenSacramento$3.8M
Alan HiraharaSacramento$3.4M
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Robert GorabOrange$14.5M
Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
Peter NewtonSan Diego$7M
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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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