Timothy Brand, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Charlotte, NCNPI 1306108899
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $9,901 of the $13,111 with a category attached, or 75.5%. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 28.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,664 and has fallen 52.5% since, to $1,739 in 2025.
Across 314 payments — averaging $41.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$4K
- Atricure, Inc.$4K
- Medtronic$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$645
- Abiomed$559
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$507
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,17624%
- Food & beverage$9,90176%
- Education$330%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 74 | $3,729 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 75 | $3,508 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 56 | $2,145 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 14 | $645 |
| Abiomed | 10 | $559 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 15 | $507 |
| Abbott | 11 | $501 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 9 | $286 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 9 | $255 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 6 | $150 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 7 | $149 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 5 | $99 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 2 | $88 |
| Stryker | 3 | $88 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $50 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $48 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $36 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $24 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $14 |
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.
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,553
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$1,118
- Simulus$591
- Avalus$343
- Impella$283
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$226
- MC3 NAUTILUS(TM) ECMO OXYGENATOR$193
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$145
- 3F$143
- PROLENE$141
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$139
- RIBFIX BLU ADVANTAGE$133
- SternaLock Blu$109
- Freestyle$106
- ATRICURE CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$105
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$102
How this compares
$13,111 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 132 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in North Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 44 | $209 |
| Gabapentin | 19 | $111 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 18 | $88 |
| Methocarbamol | 17 | $67 |
| Furosemide | 38 | $35 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Charlotte
- Eric SkipperCharlotte$132K
- Kevin LobdellCharlotte$76K
- Tom TheruvathCharlotte$74K
- Jeffrey HagenCharlotte$69K
- Jeko MadjarovCharlotte$47K
- Jonathan KrautCharlotte$34K
- Philip SeibelCharlotte$28K
- John FrederickCharlotte$14K
- Bradley LenoirCharlotte$13K
- Ashish JainCharlotte$12K
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.