Kenneth Brown
Gastroenterology · Frederick, MDNPI 1588626055
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 94.2% of the total across 302 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 35.0% of the total.
Across 302 payments — averaging $19.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$2K
- Gilead$497
- QOL Medical, LLC$424
- Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc$237
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$182
- plus $679 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,44994%
- Education$2604%
- Gifts$721%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 68 | $2,024 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 139 | $1,738 |
| Gilead | 20 | $497 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 17 | $424 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 14 | $237 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 12 | $182 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 6 | $129 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $125 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $112 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $72 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 5 | $57 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $33 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $18 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$5,782 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 455 gastroenterology providers in Maryland.
Other gastroenterology in Frederick
- Natasha KamalFrederick$131K
- Dawei YangFrederick$31K
- Sanmeet SinghFrederick$20K
- Apurva ModiRockville$1.1M
- Sergey KantsevoyBaltimore$1.1M
- Anurag MaheshwariBaltimore$803K
- Aline Charabaty PishvaianBaltimore$631K
- Zachary BormanChevy Chase$520K
- Mouen KhashabBaltimore$440K
- Erica CohenChevy Chase$385K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.