Katherine Brown, DO
Vascular Surgery · Omaha, NENPI 1588781926
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,386 of the $5,831 with a category attached, or 75.2%. 38 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 28.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,059 and has fallen 61.7% since, to $788 in 2025.
Across 161 payments — averaging $36.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$802
- Smith+Nephew$333
- Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$272
- Endologix LLC$229
- plus $1K from 32 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,44625%
- Food & beverage$4,38675%
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) | 13 | $1,672 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 43 | $1,120 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 8 | $802 |
| Smith+Nephew | 13 | $333 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 16 | $272 |
| Endologix LLC | 2 | $229 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 5 | $152 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 6 | $138 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $129 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 3 | $69 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 3 | $65 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $60 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 2 | $57 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $55 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $50 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $47 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $43 |
| Stryker | 2 | $42 |
| Mozarc Medical US LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $34 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Biocompatibles, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Abbott | 1 | $19 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $17 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $17 |
| BD | 1 | $15 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Venclose Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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.
- TurboHawk$1,274
- Torus Stent Graft System$206
- Abre$122
How this compares
$5,831 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 35 vascular surgery providers in Nebraska.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 69 | $673 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Omaha
- John ParkOmaha$508K
- David VogelOmaha$41K
- Marcus BaltersOmaha$27K
- Anjan TalukdarOmaha$25K
- Iraklis PipinosOmaha$24K
- Rao GuttaOmaha$21K
- Tammy RamosOmaha$10K
- Yue GaoOmaha$9K
- Jason CookOmaha$7K
- Jonathan ThompsonOmaha$5K
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.