Valerie Brunt
Acute Care · Madison, MSNPI 1386029767
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 139 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 18 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,118 and has fallen 80.4% since, to $220 in 2025.
Across 139 payments — averaging $19.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$378
- Johnson & Johnson$286
- Merck$260
- Boehringer Ingelheim$226
- Corcept Therapeutics$220
- Irhythm Technologies, Inc.$197
- plus $1K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,670100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 26 | $378 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 17 | $286 |
| Merck | 10 | $260 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 14 | $226 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 2 | $220 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 7 | $197 |
| Novartis | 9 | $182 |
| AstraZeneca | 12 | $162 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 7 | $161 |
| Bayer | 9 | $147 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 8 | $108 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 5 | $98 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 4 | $70 |
| Abbott | 3 | $57 |
| Nuwellis, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Amgen | 3 | $42 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $13 |
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
$2,670 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 223 acute care providers in Mississippi.
Other acute care in Madison
- Aaron KatzenmeyerMadison$12K
- Christopher BellTupelo$348K
- Kathleen ArnoldOcean Springs$217K
- Gavin GistOxford$42K
- Jamie DamicoOcean Springs$17K
- Dylan BoydHattiesburg$15K
- Melinda ClarkStarkville$14K
- Michelle TaylorGulfport$13K
- Megan WilliamsTupelo$11K
- Kimberly GonzalesHattiesburg$10K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.