Rachel Brown
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 33 payments — averaging $85.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Livanova USA, Inc.$2K
- AbbVie$237
- Akcea Therapeutics, Inc.$146
- Sanofi$93
- Johnson & Johnson$90
- AstraZeneca$78
- plus $239 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,70861%
- Food & beverage$90532%
- Education$1957%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 4 | $1,925 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 13 | $237 |
| Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $93 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $90 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $78 |
| Neuropace, Inc. | 4 | $71 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Greenwich Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Biogen | 1 | $17 |
| Impel Pharmaceuticals 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.
- VNS - Sentiva$1,925
- TEGSEDI$146
How this compares
$2,808 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 228 neurology providers in Oregon.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lacosamide | 31 | $6,153 |
| Levetiracetam | 98 | $3,034 |
| Carbidopa-LevodopaCarbidopa/Levodopa | 60 | $2,560 |
| Carbamazepine ErCarbamazepine | 35 | $2,278 |
| Levetiracetam ErLevetiracetam | 22 | $1,958 |
| Donepezil Hcl | 118 | $1,180 |
| Carbidopa-Levodopa ErCarbidopa/Levodopa | 18 | $1,149 |
| Oxcarbazepine | 12 | $918 |
| Primidone | 31 | $916 |
| Gabapentin | 53 | $891 |
| Pregabalin | 35 | $778 |
| Divalproex Sodium ErDivalproex Sodium | 14 | $768 |
| Lamotrigine | 40 | $735 |
| Carbamazepine | 16 | $714 |
| Memantine Hcl | 27 | $683 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurology in Bend
- Cole CrowsonBend$13K
- Craigan GriffinBend$5K
- Stanley CohanPortland$3.9M
- Kyle SmootPortland$3.2M
- Aimee PiercePortland$3M
- Chafic KaramPortland$2.8M
- Prakash AmbadyPortland$2.7M
- Michael MegaPortland$2.5M
- Jeffrey KayePortland$1.5M
- Nizar ChahinPortland$1.4M
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.