Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Brent Stephens

Orthopaedic Surgery Melbourne, FL Medical Doctor

NPI 1326278110 CMS profile 458203

205 E Nasa Blvd, Melbourne, FL 32901

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General payments

$36,932

108 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Brent Stephens of Melbourne, FL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $36,932 across 108 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 86th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $9,817 10
2024 General $8,368 16
2023 General $2,593 23
2022 General $4,718 11
2021 General $538 10
2020 General $2,234 10
2019 General $8,664 28

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Brent Stephens
  • Orthopaedic Surgery median
  • Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Brent Stephens were reported at $9,817. Among 15,343 Orthopaedic Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $563 and the middle half received between $147 and $2,717.

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Year Brent Stephens Orthopaedic Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $8,664 $644 $140–$2,844 $163
2020 $2,234 $312 $75–$1,860 $114
2021 $538 $520 $117–$2,495 $132
2022 $4,718 $598 $128–$2,731 $149
2023 $2,593 $461 $128–$2,264 $160
2024 $8,368 $497 $134–$2,475 $164
2025 $9,817 $563 $147–$2,717 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Stryker Corporation $24,415 63 payments
  2. Encore Medical, LP $4,937 5 payments
  3. Arthrex, Inc. $4,865 12 payments
  4. Fones Marketing Management, Inc. $1,489 5 payments
  5. Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $904 11 payments
  6. Smith+Nephew, Inc. $88 3 payments
  7. Anika Therapeutics, Inc. $80 1 payment
  8. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $24 1 payment
  9. Amgen Inc. $23 1 payment
  10. Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. $23 1 payment
  11. Other $85 5 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $19,340 14 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $4,512 21 payments
  3. Honoraria $4,485 1 payment
  4. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $4,000 1 payment
  5. Food and Beverage $3,423 69 payments
  6. Education $1,173 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AEQUALIS PERFORM $10,231 12 payments
  2. BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION $9,403 23 payments
  3. AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED $6,813 4 payments
  4. MAKO $5,230 3 payments
  5. DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse $4,937 5 payments
  6. DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System $4,791 4 payments
  7. PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS $2,652 6 payments
  8. TORNIER FLEX $1,350 1 payment
  9. REUNION $899 3 payments
  10. Persona $850 9 payments
  11. Other $3,603 46 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 8 drugs

Part D claims

365

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$1,922

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

0%

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 11.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Methylprednisolone Generic 102 $653
Oxycodone Hcl Generic 92 $487
Diclofenac Sodium Generic 36 $319
Cephalexin Generic 14 $167
Ibuprofen Generic 17 $92
Amoxicillin Generic 50 $80
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl Generic 33 $66
Tramadol Hcl Generic 21 $59

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 18,934 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 40 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$358,637

Of which drugs: $1,405

Medicare patients

784

Average age 73

Services billed

3,992

432 women, 352 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 75%
Diabetes 29%
Ischemic heart disease 29%
Depression 27%
Chronic kidney disease 24%
Osteoporosis 19%
COPD 18%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 Office 178 1,654 $1,195
Injection, ketorolac tromethamine, per 15 mg J1885 Office 177 415 $210

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

108 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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