Timothy Brown, MD
Hand Surgery · Greenville, SCNPI 1548210826
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $4,570 of the $6,258 with a category attached, or 73.0%. Peerless Surgical Inc. accounts for 88.2% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,433 and has fallen 92.5% since, to $183 in 2025.
Across 30 payments — averaging $208.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$6K
- Arthrex$262
- Emmaus Medical, Inc.$158
- Endo USA, Inc.$137
- Acumed LLC$129
- Bioventus LLC$28
- plus $24 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$81913%
- Food & beverage$86914%
- Education$4,57073%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 15 | $5,520 |
| Arthrex | 9 | $262 |
| Emmaus Medical, Inc. | 1 | $158 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $129 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $28 |
| Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. | 1 | $24 |
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.
- Endari$158
- XIAFLEX$137
- NanoPhix Implant$129
How this compares
$6,258 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 47 hand surgery providers in South Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 24 | $76 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Greenville
- Shea RayGreenville$13K
- Fiesky NunezGreenville$8K
- Michael PalmerGreenville$7K
- Andrew CrossGreenville$7K
- Mark MoodyGreenville$7K
- Gregory FaucherGreenville$6K
- John SandersGreenville$4K
- Seraphin MillonGreenville$1K
- Timothy DewGreenville$1K
- Walter BatsonGreenville$112
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.