Has Haywood Brown received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $165,364 in general payments to Haywood Brown across 117 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Haywood Brown did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Haywood Brown come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Haywood Brown

Obstetrics & Gynecology · Durham, NCNPI 1710060959

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $101,230 of the $165,364 with a category attached, or 61.2%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Merck at 58.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $52,469 and has fallen 86.2% since, to $7,242 in 2025. Among obstetrics & gynecology clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$165,364in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 117 payments — averaging $1413.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Merck$97K
Gen-probe, Inc.$43K
Cook Incorporated$11K
Cook Medical LLC$9K
Radiometer America, Inc$3K
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$951
plus $1K from 6 others

$23,376in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $7792.14 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$23K
Boehringer Ingelheim Canada Ltd.ltee$248

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$101,23061%
Speaking & faculty fees$10,8337%
Travel & lodging$49,93230%
Food & beverage$3,3702%

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	65	$96,939
Gen-probe, Inc.	13	$42,772
Cook Incorporated	5	$11,368
Cook Medical LLC	8	$9,188
Radiometer America, Inc	2	$2,979
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	13	$951
Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.	1	$500
Hologic Inc	6	$436
Boston Scientific	1	$107
Pfizer	1	$97
AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$26
Cytyc Surgical Products, LLC	1	$3

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

$165,364 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,344 obstetrics & gynecology providers in North Carolina.

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Other obstetrics & gynecology in Durham

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Anne LyerlyDurham$22K
Jerry MatkinsCharlotte$481K
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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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