Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-06-30 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

LAURA A BROWN

Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers Nurse Practitioner

NPI
1235666215
CMS profile
11217472
Location
HICKORY, NC

General Payments · PY2023–2025

$500.08

  • Reported across 20 records
  • CMS publication 2026-06-30

Latest program year · PY2025

$247.65

11 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $202.65 10
Education $45.00 1

By paying entity

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc $64.88 3
ABBVIE INC. $61.32 3
Medtronic, Inc. $45.00 1
PFIZER INC. $22.32 1
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $20.80 1
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC $17.80 1
Averitas Pharma Inc. $15.53 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2023 $14.77 1
PY2024 $237.66 8
PY2025 $247.65 11

Payment records · PY2025 (11)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2025 20232024 Record-level detail is published for PY2025; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
ABBVIE INC. $16.13 03/04/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1205350540 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $17.24 06/16/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1205350546 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $27.95 08/04/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1205350552 CMS
Averitas Pharma Inc. $15.53 01/13/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1248559119 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $20.80 05/28/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1174155901 CMS
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc $17.37 07/02/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1208874657 CMS
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc $29.89 09/29/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1208874659 CMS
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc $17.62 12/15/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1208874661 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $45.00 01/11/2025 Education Undisputed 06/30/2026 1212031420 CMS
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC $17.80 06/10/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1232573331 CMS
PFIZER INC. $22.32 05/06/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1229180040 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-06-30
Program years on this page
2023, 2024, 2025
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2023 , PY2024 , PY2025
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2025_P06302026_06032026.csv

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