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

John Brusky

Pain Medicine Milwaukee, WI Medical Doctor

NPI 1669455648 CMS profile 120567

2900 W Oklahoma Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53215

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General payments

$8,317

238 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, John Brusky of Milwaukee, WI is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $8,317 across 238 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 77th percentile of Pain Medicine 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 $194 8
2024 General $1,139 41
2023 General $1,001 30
2022 General $582 15
2021 General $1,089 35
2020 General $1,312 49
2019 General $3,001 60

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • John Brusky
  • Pain Medicine median
  • Middle half of Pain Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to John Brusky were reported at $194. Among 2,779 Pain Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $458 and the middle half received between $124 and $1,401.

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Year John Brusky Pain Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $3,001 $498 $126–$1,682 $163
2020 $1,312 $284 $80–$910 $114
2021 $1,089 $399 $112–$1,219 $132
2022 $582 $455 $137–$1,484 $149
2023 $1,001 $484 $128–$1,495 $160
2024 $1,139 $498 $131–$1,540 $164
2025 $194 $458 $124–$1,401 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Vertiflex, Inc. $1,782 8 payments
  2. Boston Scientific Corporation $1,151 27 payments
  3. Nevro Corp. $915 26 payments
  4. Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. $882 47 payments
  5. Abbott Laboratories $818 15 payments
  6. TerSera Therapeutics LLC $368 16 payments
  7. Medtronic, Inc. $294 2 payments
  8. Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $288 18 payments
  9. SPR Therapeutics, Inc $253 4 payments
  10. Medtronic USA, Inc. $231 7 payments
  11. Other $1,334 68 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $6,877 235 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $1,440 3 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Superion ISS $1,782 8 payments
  2. Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System $527 14 payments
  3. BELBUCA $487 25 payments
  4. PROCLAIM Neuromodulation $476 9 payments
  5. SUPERION Pain Management $438 6 payments
  6. Superion Pain Management $387 10 payments
  7. XTAMPZA $353 20 payments
  8. Prialt $288 12 payments
  9. RELISTOR $276 17 payments
  10. PROCLAIM Neuromodulation $264 2 payments
  11. Other $3,664 150 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 · 36 drugs

Part D claims

4,662

Median for Anesthesiology: 322

Drug cost

$194,579

Median for Anesthesiology: $8,738

Branded share of claims

47.7%

Median for Anesthesiology: 25.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Xtampza Er Oxycodone Myristate Brand 40 $26,823
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 1,023 $24,333
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 792 $22,728
Nucynta Er Tapentadol Hcl Brand 12 $21,286
Oxycontin Oxycodone Hcl Brand 35 $15,201
Nucynta Tapentadol Hcl Brand 14 $13,972
Buprenorphine Generic 66 $11,324
Belbuca Buprenorphine Hcl Brand 21 $8,157
Pregabalin Generic 308 $6,811
Gabapentin Generic 454 $6,282

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 36 counted.

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 3,517 Part D prescribers listed as Anesthesiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 34 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$52,908

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

244

Average age 70

Services billed

749

153 women, 91 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%
Depression 40%
Ischemic heart disease 33%
Chronic kidney disease 31%
Diabetes 29%
COPD 21%
Osteoporosis 21%

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.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 6 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
BELBUCA
  • Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. $233
$233 21 —
RELISTOR
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $115
$115 — —
Prialt
  • TerSera Therapeutics LLC $103
$103 — —
GABLOFEN
  • Piramal Critical Care $73
$73 — —
XTAMPZA
  • Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. $41
$41 40 —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

238 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

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

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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