Has Adam Brown received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $19,296 in general payments to Adam Brown across 208 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Adam Brown did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Adam Brown come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Adam Brown

Neurological Surgery · Wilmington, NCNPI 1336283795

Payments from drug & device makers

$19,296in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 208 payments — averaging $92.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$9K
Globus Medical$3K
Medtronic$2K
Boston Scientific$707
Synaptive Medical Inc.$616
Nevro Corp.$573
plus $4K from 36 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$6,00031%
Speaking & faculty fees$310%
Travel & lodging$1,7349%
Food & beverage$11,39859%
Education$1331%

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
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	31	$9,261
Globus Medical(2 entities)	23	$2,591
Medtronic(2 entities)	31	$1,574
Boston Scientific	15	$707
Synaptive Medical Inc.	6	$616
Nevro Corp.	13	$573
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	8	$462
Benvenue Medical Inc	5	$435
Brainlab, Inc.	4	$297
Spinal Elements, Inc.	3	$275
Monteris Medical Corporation	2	$254
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	2	$248
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	13	$225
Intrinsic Therapeutics	5	$175
Bioventus LLC	2	$163
Si-bone, Inc.	7	$129
Cerapedics Inc.	3	$121
Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC	1	$110
Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.	1	$101
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	4	$98
Spine Wave, Inc.	2	$86
7d Surgical Inc.	1	$78
CTL Medical Corporation	1	$75
NSK America Corporation	1	$75
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$68
Stryker	2	$65
Baxter Healthcare	3	$49
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$43
Zap Surgical Systems, Inc.	1	$40
Abbott	2	$39
Zimmer Biomet	2	$32
Irras USA, Inc.	1	$31
Spineguard, Inc.	1	$28
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	1	$25
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$25
Kerecis Limited	1	$21
Elutia, Inc.	1	$21
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$19
Aesculap, Inc.	1	$18
Spineology Inc.	1	$18
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$14
Kls-martin L.p.	1	$13

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

RISE-L$1,308
Brightmatter Guide/Modus V$546
i7$525
Kiva VCF Treatment System$353
Blazer Vertebral Augmentation Kit$353
Neuroblate$254
Omnia$222
CAVUX Cervical Cage$220
Magellan$218
Intracept$201
Image Guided Surgical Device$200
ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$188
MARS 3V Lateral Retractor$166
Medical Device$164
Pulse$152
OsteoAMP$141
3D Printed Cervical Interbody$120
MAZOR X SYSTEM$120
ARTiC-L$116
OsteoCentric 4.0 x 130mm LOCKING BONE SCREW FASTENER ST$101

How this compares

$19,296 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 196 neurological surgery providers in North Carolina.

See all neurological surgery providers in North Carolina →

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$316,839

Medicare patients

265

Services billed

821

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Pregabalin	11	$329
Gabapentin	17	$123
Oxycodone Hcl	12	$76
Tramadol Hcl	11	$53

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Wilmington

John ThomasWilmington$2.4M
Jeffrey BeecherWilmington$176K
Justin CappuzzoWilmington$39K
Robert IsaacsDurham$6.6M
Christopher ShaffreyDurham$4.5M
Domagoj CoricCharlotte$4.1M
Kimberly LivingstonRaleigh$3.4M
Paul KimCharlotte$1.8M
Alexander PowersKernersville$1.7M
Vibhor KrishnaChapel Hill$1.6M

See the full list for North Carolina →

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.

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