Chase Brown, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Philadelphia, PANPI 1497166383
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (50.2%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 63.8% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $110,200, more than ten times the $1,777 reported in 2019. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in PA 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 348 payments — averaging $392.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$87K
- Atricure, Inc.$22K
- Abbott$19K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Bolton Medical Inc$1K
- Medtronic$1K
- plus $4K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$16,48012%
- Speaking & faculty fees$20,98815%
- Travel & lodging$13,45510%
- Food & beverage$17,08113%
- Education$68,55450%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 68 | $87,145 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 90 | $21,546 |
| Abbott | 43 | $18,581 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 30 | $2,473 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 11 | $1,418 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 14 | $1,376 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 15 | $1,270 |
| Abiomed | 13 | $638 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 9 | $532 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 8 | $454 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 40 | $413 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $384 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $125 |
| Enablecv Inc. | 2 | $98 |
| BD | 1 | $60 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Novartis | 1 | $20 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$86,631
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$11,415
- MitraClip$7,964
- Epic$6,961
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$4,380
- TENDYNE$2,500
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,711
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$1,031
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$1,002
- Octopus$633
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$440
- MINI TREK$406
- COR KNOT$384
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$342
- Relay Grafts$333
- NAVITOR$303
- Impella$277
- HemoSphere$166
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$159
- Relay Plus$148
How this compares
$136,557 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 314 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Pennsylvania.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 42 | $328 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Philadelphia
- Mark AndersonPhiladelphia$527K
- Michael AckerPhiladelphia$271K
- Wilson SzetoPhiladelphia$252K
- Nimesh DesaiPhiladelphia$203K
- Nathaniel EvansPhiladelphia$187K
- Marisa CevascoPhiladelphia$186K
- Pavan AtluriPhiladelphia$165K
- Olugbenga OkusanyaPhiladelphia$132K
- Michael IbrahimPhiladelphia$66K
- Joshua GrimmPhiladelphia$56K
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.