Has John Brown, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $32,446 in general payments to John Brown, MD across 446 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 John Brown, MD 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 John Brown, MD 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.

John Brown, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Morristown, NJNPI 1164424529

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $26,859 of the $32,446 with a category attached, or 82.8%. Medtronic accounts for 73.5% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest.

$32,446in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 446 payments — averaging $72.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$24K
Edwards Lifesciences$5K
Abbott$2K
Atricure, Inc.$581
Boston Scientific$162
CSL Behring$133
plus $559 from 9 others

$892,079in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 159 payments — averaging $5610.56 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.

Edwards Lifesciences$616K
Medtronic$276K

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	249	$23,859
Edwards Lifesciences	127	$4,845
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.

How this compares

$32,446 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 129 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$523,425

Medicare patients

396

Services billed

748

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.

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Federico SteinerMorristown$25K
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Steve XydasMorristown$12K
James SlaterMorristown$11K
Christopher MagovernMorristown$6K
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Leonard LeeHackensack$143K

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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.

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