David Brown
Plastic Surgery · Durham, NCNPI 1316188238
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $10,550 of the $15,912 with a category attached, or 66.3%. Checkpoint Surgical, Inc accounts for 89.3% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $9,593 and has fallen 98.6% since, to $137 in 2025.
Across 26 payments — averaging $612.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$14K
- AbbVie$327
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$315
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$267
- Sientra, Inc.$201
- Biocomposites Inc$137
- plus $464 from 5 others
Across 8 payments — averaging $7049.02 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.
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$56K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,55066%
- Travel & lodging$2,62717%
- Food & beverage$2,64017%
- Entertainment$951%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 6 | $14,202 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $327 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 3 | $315 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 3 | $267 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 3 | $201 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $137 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 2 | $118 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $113 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
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
$15,912 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 128 plastic surgery providers in North Carolina.
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 plastic surgery in Durham
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- Suhail MithaniDurham$146K
- Duncan HughesDurham$68K
- Detlev ErdmannDurham$14K
- Linda CendalesDurham$8K
- Scott HollenbeckDurham$7K
- Ashit PatelDurham$6K
- Nicholas ClavinCharlotte$562K
- Luther HoltonWilmington$533K
- Theodore NyameCharlotte$364K
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.