Question 1

Has Katherine Brown received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,893 in general payments to Katherine Brown across 114 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Question 2

Does a payment mean Katherine Brown did something wrong?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 3

Where does this information about Katherine Brown come from?

Accepted Answer

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.

Company	Payments	Total
Neos Therapeutics, LP	22	$396
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	22	$224
Tris Pharma Inc	13	$222
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	10	$216
Corium, LLC	11	$212
Pfizer	6	$119
Noven Therapeutics, LLC	6	$100
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	5	$68
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.	3	$55
Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC	2	$50
Genentech USA, Inc.	2	$44
Cranial Technologies, Inc	2	$33
Shire North American Group Inc	2	$31
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$30
Adlon Therapeutics L.p.	2	$29
Seqirus USA Inc	1	$24
Boehringer Ingelheim	1	$15
Aytu Biopharma, Inc.	1	$14
Merck	1	$12

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