Aaron Brown, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Pikeville, KYNPI 1083750681
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 91.6% of the total across 12 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 11 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for surgical critical care clinicians in KY, where the typical reported total is $641.
Across 12 payments — averaging $27.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- TELA Bio, Inc.$76
- Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$69
- Covidien LP$47
- Abbott$30
- AbbVie$27
- CSL Behring$20
- plus $68 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$82%
- Food & beverage$30892%
- Education$206%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $76 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $69 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $47 |
| Abbott | 1 | $30 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $27 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $20 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Dentsply Sirona Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 1 | $8 |
How this compares
$336 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 31 surgical critical care providers in Kentucky.
Medicare billing
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.
Other surgical critical care in Pikeville
- Henrik BerdelPikeville$3K
- Caroline NeffPikeville$3K
- Anthony BottiggiPikeville$416
- Amanda HanggePikeville$137
- Matthew BennsLouisville$10K
- Timothy MullettLexington$5K
- Brian ClarkeEdgewood$5K
- William WeberLexington$4K
- Jonathan VacekLouisville$4K
- Matthew BozemanLouisville$4K
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.