Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

JOSEPH BROWN

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Orthopaedic Surgery Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine

NPI
1235127648
CMS profile
236678
Location
GRAND RAPIDS, MI

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$512,650.16

  • Reported across 129 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$78,708.79

9 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Royalty or License $78,116.90 3
Food and Beverage $591.89 6

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Globus Medical, Inc. $78,116.90 3
Medtronic, Inc. $381.82 4
Centinel Spine, LLC $132.28 1
Wenzel Spine, Inc. $77.79 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $60,875.55 35
PY2019 $35,464.60 23
PY2020 $53,368.98 12
PY2021 $83,896.49 18
PY2022 $96,907.85 20
PY2023 $103,427.90 12
PY2024 $78,708.79 9

Payment records · PY2024 (9)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Centinel Spine, LLC $132.28 04/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1133891882 CMS
Globus Medical, Inc. $25,539.88 04/26/2024 Royalty or License Undisputed 01/23/2026 1145020321 CMS
Globus Medical, Inc. $25,554.93 07/30/2024 Royalty or License Undisputed 01/23/2026 1145020337 CMS
Globus Medical, Inc. $27,022.09 10/30/2024 Royalty or License Undisputed 01/23/2026 1145020339 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $146.63 02/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1117178782 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $69.78 09/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1117178786 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $152.04 10/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1117178784 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $13.37 12/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1117178788 CMS
Wenzel Spine, Inc. $77.79 05/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1079859067 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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