Michael Brown, MD
Urology · Huntsville, ALNPI 1477507705
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 306 payments — averaging $15.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$1K
- AbbVie$675
- Johnson & Johnson$499
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$182
- Boston Scientific$179
- Coloplast$168
- plus $2K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,53994%
- Education$2786%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 96 | $1,187 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 43 | $675 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 32 | $499 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 13 | $182 |
| Boston Scientific | 11 | $179 |
| Coloplast | 5 | $168 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 3 | $156 |
| Rochester Medical Corporation | 8 | $154 |
| Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8 | $152 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $138 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 6 | $125 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $122 |
| Verity Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $101 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $99 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 4 | $96 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $94 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 6 | $82 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 5 | $69 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Halozyme Inc | 3 | $50 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 2 | $44 |
| Merck | 2 | $42 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 11 | $38 |
| Urovant Sciences Inc | 2 | $37 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Calyxo, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Mission Pharmacal Company | 1 | $21 |
| Accord Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Bayer | 1 | $19 |
| Abbott | 1 | $18 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $16 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Aytu Biopharma, 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.
- TITAN$105
How this compares
$4,817 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 179 urology providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 31 | $19,567 |
| GemtesaVibegron | 24 | $15,107 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 563 | $10,590 |
| Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate | 66 | $4,317 |
| Methenamine Hippurate | 26 | $2,920 |
| Finasteride | 181 | $2,617 |
| Tadalafil | 17 | $1,965 |
| Silodosin | 11 | $1,895 |
| Fesoterodine Fumarate ErFesoterodine Fumarate | 21 | $1,623 |
| Bicalutamide | 43 | $1,534 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride | 52 | $1,508 |
| Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl | 49 | $1,506 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride | 48 | $1,219 |
| Solifenacin Succinate | 38 | $816 |
| NitrofurantoinNitrofurantoin Macrocrystal | 31 | $774 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $1,187 | $19,56731 claims |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa | $125 | $15,10724 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 55th percentile of 179 urology providers in Alabama.
Other urology in Huntsville
- James McMurrayHuntsville$4.7M
- Jacob BrittHuntsville$14K
- Victor JiminezHuntsville$9K
- James FlattHuntsville$9K
- Joseph PettusHuntsville$7K
- Vincent BivinsHomewood$1.3M
- Charles WhiteMobile$735K
- Thomas ChiBirmingham$628K
- Charles BuggHomewood$544K
- Charles PeytonBirmingham$543K
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.