Has Susannah Brown, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,534 in general payments to Susannah Brown, MD across 17 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 Susannah Brown, 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 Susannah Brown, 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.

Susannah Brown, MD

Ophthalmology · Charleston, SCNPI 1568915619

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,534in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $90.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alcon$322
Alimera Sciences, Inc.$279
AbbVie$202
Glaukos Corporation$172
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$142
Axogen$121
plus $297 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,44194%
Education$936%

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
Alcon	4	$322
Alimera Sciences, Inc.	2	$279
AbbVie	2	$202
Glaukos Corporation	2	$172
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	2	$142
Axogen	1	$121
Omeros Corporation	1	$120
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	1	$93
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$57
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.	1	$26

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

$1,534 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 293 ophthalmology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$199,914

Medicare patients

514

Services billed

2,450

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
Cyclosporine	11	$3,751
ErythromycinErythromycin Base	207	$2,133
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl	34	$651
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone	13	$596
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha	27	$314

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other ophthalmology in Charleston

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Eric JablonCharleston$1.2M
John KerrisonCharleston$975K
Karolinne RochaCharleston$799K
Mona CamacciCharleston$534K
Marion WilsonCharleston$86K
Drew DicksonCharleston$53K
Michael JohnsonCharleston$23K
Karen FernandezCharleston$22K
Cole MillikenCharleston$17K

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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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