Joel Brown, MD
Family Medicine · Hinsdale, ILNPI 1831157452
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 174 payments — averaging $19.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$504
- AbbVie$379
- Lilly USA, LLC$374
- Amgen$315
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$197
- Pfizer$186
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,33199%
- Education$241%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 28 | $504 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 16 | $379 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 23 | $374 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 17 | $315 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 14 | $197 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $186 |
| Novo Nordisk | 9 | $185 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $185 |
| GSK | 9 | $173 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $162 |
| Merck | 8 | $128 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 5 | $74 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 3 | $69 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $47 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 3 | $45 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $37 |
| Bayer | 1 | $27 |
| Organon | 1 | $21 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $19 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, 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.
- Arikayce$109
How this compares
$3,355 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 4,116 family medicine providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 50 | $79,178 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 40 | $38,718 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 31 | $38,399 |
| EliquisApixaban | 32 | $37,995 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 27 | $33,151 |
| Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl | 17 | $26,859 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 20 | $24,162 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 13 | $13,714 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 17 | $11,620 |
| Icosapent Ethyl | 24 | $10,950 |
| Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl | 13 | $5,948 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 335 | $3,733 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 85 | $2,360 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 163 | $2,205 |
| Lisinopril | 213 | $1,812 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Stiolto Respimat | $162 | $85,12763 claims |
| MerckJanumet Xr, Januvia | $128 | $51,02137 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $185 | $38,71840 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $504 | $38,39931 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $186 | $37,99532 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $185 | $33,15127 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $374 | $13,71413 claims |
| GSKBreo Ellipta | $173 | $11,62017 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 4,116 family medicine providers in Illinois.
Other family medicine in Hinsdale
- Daniel BruneCreve Coeur$15M
- Ali BajwaSpringfield$5.8M
- John ElsenEvergreen Park$5M
- Manohar JethaniBerwyn$4.9M
- Tiffany NguyenSkokie$3.9M
- Bradley TorphyChicago$3M
- Diana WidicusRochester$2.6M
- Nicholas WeberEureka$2.5M
- Stanley KochMorton$2.3M
- Mark ChristensenNew Lenox$2.1M
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.