John Brown, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Morristown, NJNPI 1164424529
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 605 payments — averaging $1528.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$621K
- Medtronic$300K
- Abbott$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$581
- Boston Scientific$162
- CSL Behring$133
- plus $559 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,50014%
- Travel & lodging$7402%
- Food & beverage$26,85983%
- Education$650%
- Other$2821%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 195 | $620,848 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 340 | $299,935 |
| Abbott | 38 | $2,307 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 10 | $581 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $162 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $133 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $117 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $113 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 1 | $68 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $65 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $28 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$9,092
- CoreValve Evolut$6,825
- Avalus$1,668
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$726
- NAVITOR$678
- PORTICO$553
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$356
- KONECT RESILIA$309
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$292
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$292
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$254
- Epic$175
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$175
- Epic Stented Tissue Valve$143
- Kcentra$133
- TEG6s HEMOSTASIS SYSTEM$117
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$114
- CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$114
- BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$114
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$114
How this compares
$924,524 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 129 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New Jersey.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 99 | $746 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Morristown
- Steve XydasMorristown$161K
- Benjamin van BoxtelMorristown$40K
- Bledi ZakuMorristown$27K
- Federico SteinerMorristown$25K
- Mark WidmannMorristown$25K
- James SlaterMorristown$11K
- Christopher MagovernMorristown$6K
- Mark RussoNew Brunswick$2.4M
- Atiq RehmanCherry Hill$503K
- Igor GosevNewark$241K
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.