Has Richard Brown received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,173 in general payments to Richard Brown across 181 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 Richard Brown 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 Richard Brown 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.

Richard Brown

Medical Oncology · Sarasota, FLNPI 1659352383

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,227 of the $4,173 with a category attached, or 77.3%. It is spread thinly across 43 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,119 and has fallen 87.1% since, to $273 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for medical oncology clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $8,890.

$4,173in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 181 payments — averaging $23.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Varian Medical Systems, Inc.$838
Johnson & Johnson$392
Merck$327
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$214
Novartis$175
Genentech USA, Inc.$172
plus $2K from 37 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$83820%
Food & beverage$3,22777%
Education$1083%

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
Varian Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$838
Johnson & Johnson(3 entities)	30	$392
Merck	24	$327
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	16	$214
Novartis	12	$175
Genentech USA, Inc.	18	$172
Exelixis Inc.	7	$161
Medtronic	1	$161
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	1	$147
Angiodynamics, Inc.	1	$136
Profound Medical Corp.	1	$126
Pfizer	11	$122
Inari Medical, Inc.	1	$115
AstraZeneca	3	$107
Sanofi	6	$105
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	1	$96
Astellas Pharma US Inc	5	$90
Puma Biotechnology, Inc.	4	$72
Terumo BCT, Inc.	1	$63
Amgen	4	$58
EMD Serono, Inc.	3	$41
Lilly USA, LLC	2	$40
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$37
Tersera Therapeutics LLC	3	$36
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$30
Gilead	2	$27
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$25
Seagen Inc.	2	$24
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$23
Tesaro, Inc.	1	$23
EUSA Pharma (US) LLC	1	$23
AbbVie	1	$22
GSK	1	$19
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	1	$18
Array Biopharma Inc	1	$16
Bayer	1	$15
Helsinn Therapeutics (U.S.), Inc.	1	$15
Bristol Myers Squibb	1	$14
Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$13
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	1	$13
Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$12
Aurobindo Pharma USA, Inc.	1	$11
Veracyte, Inc.	2	$1

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.

TrueBeam$838
Signia$161
Magtrace$147
SENTIMAG$147
Nanoknife$136
Tulsa-Pro$126
FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$115
CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$115
ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY Curved Intraluminal Stapler$111
ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY Endoscopic Curved Intraluminal Stapler$111

How this compares

$4,173 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 507 medical oncology providers in Florida.

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Other medical oncology in Sarasota

Manish PatelSarasota$123K
Judy WangSarasota$64K
Neil LoveMiami$5.6M
Mahdi TahaBoca Raton$1.7M
Raji ShameemOrlando$1.3M
Mohammad JahanzebBoca Raton$1.3M
Michel VelezOrlando$927K
Yuanbin ChenOrlando$810K
Reshma MahtaniPlantation$608K
Rebecca MorooseOrlando$543K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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