Heather Brown, MD
Emergency Medicine · Columbia, SCNPI 1396906251
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $122,626 of the $123,210 with a category attached, or 99.5%. Gilead accounts for 100.0% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among emergency medicine clinicians in SC 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.
Across 21 payments — averaging $5867.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$123K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$16
- AbbVie$14
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$122,626100%
- Travel & lodging$400%
- Food & beverage$5440%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 19 | $123,180 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $16 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$123,210 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,024 emergency medicine providers in South 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 emergency medicine in Columbia
- Daniel TrohaColumbia$29K
- Thomas CookColumbia$14K
- Andrew DonatoColumbia$2K
- Courtney LaneColumbia$982
- Louis LeblancColumbia$788
- Wesley CarterColumbia$624
- Christopher MichaelisMount Pleasant$399K
- Phillip MoschellaGreenville$298K
- Gregory HallCharleston$198K
- Sarah FabianoGreenville$78K
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.