Darron Brown
Infectious Disease · Indianapolis, INNPI 1598721961
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (46.8%), speaking fees and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Merck. Among infectious disease clinicians in IN 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 17 payments — averaging $1219.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$21K
Across 9 payments — averaging $89,081 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.
- Merck$802K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,11525%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,58027%
- Travel & lodging$9,71347%
- Food & beverage$3292%
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 | 17 | $20,738 |
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.
- GARDASIL 9$8,871
How this compares
$20,738 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 152 infectious disease providers in Indiana.
Other infectious disease in Indianapolis
- Samir GuptaIndianapolis$53K
- Renita BrownIndianapolis$12K
- Stephen JordanIndianapolis$3K
- Bree WeaverIndianapolis$2K
- Steven NorrisIndianapolis$2K
- Kathryn RobertsonIndianapolis$1K
- Christina TangIndianapolis$1K
- Carmen TichindeleanIndianapolis$1K
- Keith BanksIndianapolis$861
- Virginia CaineIndianapolis$643
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.