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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $997 in general payments to Karin Brown, MD across 22 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 Karin 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 Karin 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.

Karin Brown, MD

Urology · Billings, MTNPI 1306086293

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 93.8% of the total across 22 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 12 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for urology clinicians in MT, where the typical reported total is $1,996.

$997in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $45.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$232
Johnson & Johnson$157
Intuitive Surgical$141
Olympus America Inc.$126
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$125
AbbVie$54
plus $162 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$93694%
Education$626%

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	6	$232
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$157
Intuitive Surgical	4	$141
Olympus America Inc.	1	$126
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$125
AbbVie	1	$54
Baxter Healthcare	1	$49
Conmed Corporation	1	$44
Boston Scientific	1	$37
Laborie Medical Technologies Corp.	1	$17
Ambu Inc.	1	$8
Travere Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$8

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

$997 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 45 urology providers in Montana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$165,327

Medicare patients

552

Services billed

1,271

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
MyrbetriqMirabegron	22	$19,983
Tamsulosin Hcl	352	$4,307
Methenamine Hippurate	65	$2,397
Estradiol	35	$1,834
Finasteride	164	$1,796
Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride	36	$813
Trospium Chloride	16	$620
Solifenacin Succinate	12	$373
Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst	30	$324
Oxybutynin Chloride	19	$250
Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl	17	$224
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	56	$222
Ketorolac Tromethamine	12	$176
Dutasteride	13	$157
Ciprofloxacin Hcl	15	$102

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other urology in Billings

Lisa BlandBillings$4K
Adam DowellBillings$4K
Daniel FaaborgBillings$3K
Daniel SwansonBillings$2K
Michael HickmanBillings$1K
Daniel HolstBillings$1K
Christopher SchreiberBillings$1K
Ruth BlumBillings$720
Robert StockdaleBillings$143
Lawrence KleeBillings$20

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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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