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

Brian Brighton

Orthopaedic Surgery Charlotte, NC Medical Doctor

NPI 1881883015 CMS profile 1071751

1915 Randolph Rd, Charlotte, NC 28207

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General payments

$5,337

52 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, Brian Brighton of Charlotte, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $5,337 across 52 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 58th 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 $2,132 21
2024 General $333 7
2023 General $39 1
2022 General $162 3
2021 General $119 1
2020 General $138 2
2019 General $2,415 17

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Brian Brighton were reported at $2,132. 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 Brian Brighton Orthopaedic Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $2,415 $644 $140–$2,844 $163
2020 $138 $312 $75–$1,860 $114
2021 $119 $520 $117–$2,495 $132
2022 $162 $598 $128–$2,731 $149
2023 $39 $461 $128–$2,264 $160
2024 $333 $497 $134–$2,475 $164
2025 $2,132 $563 $147–$2,717 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $3,208 16 payments
  2. DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $986 20 payments
  3. NuVasive, Inc. $246 2 payments
  4. Medtronic, Inc. $235 2 payments
  5. OrthoPediatrics Corp. $197 2 payments
  6. Stryker Corporation $119 1 payment
  7. Smith+Nephew, Inc. $116 4 payments
  8. Bone Support Inc. $97 1 payment
  9. NuVasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. $79 1 payment
  10. Globus Medical, Inc. $26 1 payment
  11. Other $28 2 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Travel and Lodging $2,960 8 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $2,377 44 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. EXPEDIUM Spine $2,025 11 payments
  2. Velys Spine $1,274 6 payments
  3. MAZOR X SYSTEM $235 2 payments
  4. Velys Ortho-Knee $193 4 payments
  5. VIVIGEN MIS DELIVERY SYSTEM $182 2 payments
  6. EXPEDIUM Spine $162 3 payments
  7. MAGEC $126 1 payment
  8. RELINE $119 1 payment
  9. HOFFMANN $119 1 payment
  10. CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER $97 1 payment
  11. Other $698 18 payments

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

Records

52 reported

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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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