Jeffrey Brown, PA
Surgical · Spartanburg, SCNPI 1871556126
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,636 of the $7,392 with a category attached, or 62.7%. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 39.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,550, 4.4 times the $585 reported in 2021. Among surgical 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 158 payments — averaging $46.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Abbott$714
- Edwards Lifesciences$573
- Baxter Healthcare$241
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$148
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,73937%
- Food & beverage$4,63663%
- Education$170%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 12 | $2,935 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 58 | $1,641 |
| Abbott | 17 | $714 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 11 | $573 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $241 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 3 | $148 |
| Saphena Medical, Inc. | 2 | $145 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $122 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 3 | $116 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 5 | $105 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 6 | $82 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $76 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $70 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $61 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 6 | $51 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $48 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $47 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $39 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $39 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Cagent Vascular Inc | 3 | $20 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $18 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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$2,800
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$297
- Epic$291
- COSEAL$143
- Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$124
- KONECT RESILIA$120
How this compares
$7,392 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 232 surgical 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 40 | $667 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 17 | $227 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 67 | $198 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 29 | $185 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 12 | $109 |
| Potassium Chloride | 17 | $87 |
| Carvedilol | 19 | $84 |
| Losartan Potassium | 11 | $64 |
| Glipizide | 12 | $38 |
| Furosemide | 14 | $17 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical in Spartanburg
- Brittany NielsenSpartanburg$2K
- Chandler JonesSpartanburg$2K
- Phillip ReustleSpartanburg$2K
- Blaine BuchananSpartanburg$2K
- Katelynn KingSpartanburg$2K
- Landrie MorrisSpartanburg$2K
- Landon HewellSpartanburg$2K
- Joshua BeardsleyRock Hill$192K
- Carey LennonNorth Charleston$22K
- Bryce StallingsColumbia$16K
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.