Brian Southern, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Cleveland, OHNPI 1851509921
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $11,880 of the $17,698 with a category attached, or 67.1%. Boehringer Ingelheim accounts for 94.9% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $10,943, more than ten times the $444 reported in 2019.
Across 35 payments — averaging $505.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boehringer Ingelheim$17K
- United Therapeutics Corporation$752
- Genentech USA, Inc.$137
- Chiesi USA, Inc.$17
Across 17 payments — averaging $3630.78 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Boehringer Ingelheim$62K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$11,88067%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,89322%
- Travel & lodging$6614%
- Food & beverage$1,2637%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 20 | $16,792 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 13 | $752 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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
$17,698 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 571 pulmonary disease providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| OfevNintedanib Esylate | 39 | $503,840 |
| Pirfenidone | 98 | $139,246 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 51 | $37,944 |
| Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl | 37 | $17,912 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 25 | $12,097 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 11 | $6,781 |
| Mycophenolate Mofetil | 78 | $5,025 |
| Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 15 | $1,833 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 64 | $1,426 |
| MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium | 24 | $740 |
| Prednisone | 79 | $713 |
| Leflunomide | 18 | $588 |
| Azithromycin | 35 | $389 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 20 | $203 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 42 | $164 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimOfev, Stiolto Respimat | $16,792 | $521,75176 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 571 pulmonary disease providers in Ohio.
Other pulmonary disease in Cleveland
- Kristin HighlandCleveland$551K
- Joseph CiceniaCleveland$350K
- Michael MachuzakCleveland$286K
- Marie BudevCleveland$159K
- Leslie TolleCleveland$136K
- Elliott DasenbrookCleveland$114K
- James StollerCleveland$101K
- Gustavo Heresi DavilaCleveland$98K
- Bryan BennCleveland$96K
- Thomas GildeaCleveland$69K
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.