Has Malcolm Branch, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $18,384 in general payments to Malcolm Branch, MD across 25 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 Malcolm Branch, 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 Malcolm Branch, 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.

Malcolm Branch, MD

Gastroenterology · Durham, NCNPI 1639252877

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $17,025 of the $18,384 with a category attached, or 92.6%. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated at 51.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $6,930 and has fallen 75.1% since, to $1,724 in 2025.

$18,384in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 25 payments — averaging $735.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated$9K
Boston Scientific$6K
Ambu Inc.$3K
Creo Medical Inc.$146
Pentax Of America, Inc.$94
Cook Medical LLC$50

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$17,02593%
Travel & lodging$7434%
Food & beverage$6153%

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
Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated	9	$9,445
Boston Scientific	9	$5,553
Ambu Inc.	2	$3,096
Creo Medical Inc.	1	$146
Pentax Of America, Inc.	1	$94
Cook Medical LLC	3	$50

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

$18,384 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 610 gastroenterology providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$43,761

Medicare patients

119

Services billed

319

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.

Other gastroenterology in Durham

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Elizabeth GoacherDurham$41K
Keyur PatelDurham$41K
Anna Mae DiehlDurham$36K
Jeremy Glissen BrownDurham$27K
Nancy McGrealDurham$26K
Stephen DealCharlotte$945K
Fred FowlerCharlotte$932K
Paul WatkinsChapel Hill$876K

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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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