Avery Braun, DO
Urology · Sacramento, CANPI 1972033975
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,741 of the $2,771 with a category attached, or 62.8%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by EDAP Technomed Inc at 40.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,326 and has fallen 97.4% since, to $35 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for urology clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $2,485.
Across 37 payments — averaging $74.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- EDAP Technomed Inc$1K
- Boston Scientific$453
- Coloplast$358
- Medtronic$336
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$204
- Blue Earth Diagnostics$115
- plus $175 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$99536%
- Food & beverage$1,74163%
- Education$351%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EDAP Technomed Inc | 8 | $1,131 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $453 |
| Coloplast | 4 | $358 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $336 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $204 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 1 | $115 |
| Ambu Inc. | 3 | $91 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $49 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $35 |
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.
How this compares
$2,771 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,324 urology providers in California.
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 urology in Sacramento
- Noah CanvasserSacramento$166K
- Prithipal SethiSacramento$109K
- Stephen FreedlandWest Hollywood$1.9M
- Arie BelldegrunLos Angeles$1.8M
- Mihir DesaiLos Angeles$1.5M
- Steven WilsonIndio$1.1M
- Stuart HoldenLos Angeles$1.1M
- Elward CrawfordSan Diego$849K
- Edward UchioOrange$849K
- Victor ChingUpland$809K
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.