Alan Brown, MD
Ophthalmology · Wilmington, NCNPI 1649278433
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $8,692 of the $10,101 with a category attached, or 86.1%. It is spread thinly across 29 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 11.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,460 and has fallen 73.6% since, to $650 in 2025. Among ophthalmology clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 153 payments — averaging $66.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lensar, Inc.$1K
- Sanofi$1K
- Alcon$1K
- Rxsight Inc$1K
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$977
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$793
- plus $4K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$701%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,29013%
- Travel & lodging$120%
- Food & beverage$8,69286%
- Education$180%
- Gifts$190%
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.
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.
- LENSAR LASER SYSTEM$980
- Tecnis IOL$885
- RXSIGHT CONTACT LENS$517
- RXSIGHT INJECTOR CARTRIDGE$517
- RXSIGHT INJECTOR HANDPIECE$517
- RXSIGHT LIGHT DELIVERY DEVICE (LDD)$517
- LIGHT ADJUSTABLE LENS (LAL)$415
- Clareon$398
- VERITAS Vision System$388
- CIRRUS HD-OCT$316
- CATALYS SYSTEM$269
- STELLARIS$246
- Eye Health$213
- IOLMaster 500$211
- VisuMax$211
- CALLISTO eye$211
- ARTEVO 800$211
- Whitestar Signature$192
- Hydrus$162
- enVista MX60 IOL$144
How this compares
$10,101 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 588 ophthalmology providers in North Carolina.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisolone Acetate | 125 | $4,045 |
| MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl | 66 | $1,403 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 62 | $1,061 |
| Tobramycin | 15 | $132 |
| Potassium Chloride | 12 | $124 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other ophthalmology in Wilmington
- Robert van der VaartWilmington$50K
- Matej PolomskyWilmington$20K
- Samantha WatsonWilmington$11K
- Clark SpringsWilmington$10K
- Preeya GuptaRaleigh$1.8M
- Julie WoodwardDurham$1M
- Rajiv ShahWinston Salem$909K
- Lejla VajzovicDurham$681K
- Karl StonecipherGreensboro$653K
- Terry KimDurham$605K
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.