Has Margaret Bruns, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $260 in general payments to Margaret Bruns, MD across 7 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 Margaret Bruns, 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 Margaret Bruns, 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.

Margaret Bruns, MD

Dermatology · Beverly, MANPI 1356830731

Payments from drug & device makers

$260in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $37.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Bristol Myers Squibb$125
AbbVie$50
Sanofi$42
Lilly USA, LLC$21
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$21

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$260100%

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
Bristol Myers Squibb	1	$125
AbbVie	2	$50
Sanofi	2	$42
Lilly USA, LLC	1	$21
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	1	$21

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.

Otezla$125

How this compares

$260 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 552 dermatology providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$238,030

Medicare patients

579

Services billed

4,141

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
Fluorouracil	87	$4,755
Betamethasone Diprop AugmentedBetamethasone/Propylene Glyc	73	$3,907
Calcipotriene	17	$2,307
Ketoconazole	93	$1,867
Tacrolimus	11	$1,271
Triamcinolone Acetonide	85	$1,055
Clobetasol Propionate	26	$1,034
Metronidazole	17	$828
Mometasone Furoate	29	$603
Hydrocortisone	82	$379
Clindamycin Phosphate	11	$302
Mupirocin	39	$242
Fluocinonide	13	$202
Fluticasone Propionate	11	$152
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl	14	$143

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other dermatology in Beverly

David GreensteinBeverly$4M
Lilit GaribyanBeverly$196K
John HarrisWorcester$17.1M
Mark AmsterBrighton$5M
Alexandra KimballBoston$3.7M
Robert NossaMarstons Mills$2.6M
Gideon SmithBoston$2.6M
Victoria KuohungQuincy$1.8M
Ethan LernerCharlestown$1.7M
Jeffrey DoverChestnut Hill$1.7M

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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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