Blair Brown, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Winston Salem, NCNPI 1861874539
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 86 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 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 10.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 86 payments — averaging $18.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$172
- AstraZeneca$159
- Boehringer Ingelheim$139
- GSK$130
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$122
- Mylan Specialty L.p.$95
- plus $761 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,576100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 11 | $172 |
| AstraZeneca | 9 | $159 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $139 |
| GSK | 9 | $130 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 6 | $122 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 5 | $95 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $94 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 4 | $88 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 5 | $85 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $76 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $58 |
| Gilead | 3 | $46 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 3 | $45 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Advanced Respiratory, Inc | 2 | $34 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
How this compares
$1,576 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 190 critical care medicine providers in North Carolina.
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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.
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- Farhan AhmedWinston Salem$17K
- Benjamin BregmanWinston Salem$11K
- Jason ThomasonWinston Salem$7K
- Sean MurphyWinston Salem$6K
- David DefeoWinston Salem$6K
- Romel GobunsuyWinston Salem$2K
- Philip KeithWinston Salem$2K
- Gregory RossWinston Salem$2K
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.