Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Columbus Brown

Rheumatology Little Rock, AR Medical Doctor

NPI 1558321612 CMS profile 25006

500 S University Ave Ste 815, Little Rock, AR 72205

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General payments

$18,035

993 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Columbus Brown of Little Rock, AR is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $18,035 across 993 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 81st percentile of Rheumatology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,736 89
2024 General $2,039 107
2023 General $1,993 96
2022 General $2,295 120
2021 General $3,022 171
2020 General $3,591 206
2019 General $3,360 204

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Columbus Brown
  • Rheumatology median
  • Middle half of Rheumatology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Columbus Brown were reported at $1,736. Among 4,454 Rheumatology profiles paid that year, the median was $903 and the middle half received between $171 and $2,775.

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Year Columbus Brown Rheumatology median Middle half National median
2019 $3,360 $744 $153–$2,687 $163
2020 $3,591 $462 $98–$2,027 $114
2021 $3,022 $531 $101–$2,153 $132
2022 $2,295 $627 $125–$2,303 $149
2023 $1,993 $741 $145–$2,524 $160
2024 $2,039 $830 $166–$2,660 $164
2025 $1,736 $903 $171–$2,775 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AbbVie, Inc. $3,557 208 payments
  2. Amgen Inc. $3,485 172 payments
  3. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $1,669 91 payments
  4. Pfizer Inc. $1,324 75 payments
  5. Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. $1,186 62 payments
  6. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $940 52 payments
  7. Horizon Therapeutics plc $933 61 payments
  8. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $644 33 payments
  9. UCB, Inc. $631 37 payments
  10. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $612 33 payments
  11. Other $3,054 169 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $17,683 983 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $180 2 payments
  3. Education $172 8 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. RINVOQ $1,812 106 payments
  2. BENLYSTA $1,669 91 payments
  3. Otezla $1,269 63 payments
  4. XELJANZ $1,196 66 payments
  5. ACTHAR $1,186 62 payments
  6. Enbrel Inflammation $867 39 payments
  7. SIMPONI ARIA $854 47 payments
  8. HUMIRA $813 45 payments
  9. Enbrel Inflammation $752 40 payments
  10. KRYSTEXXA $686 39 payments
  11. Other $10,182 571 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 78 drugs

Part D claims

6,676

Median for Rheumatology: 1,511

Drug cost

$1,886,048

Median for Rheumatology: $1,139,948

Branded share of claims

26.5%

Median for Rheumatology: 28.8%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Enbrel Sureclick Etanercept Brand 49 $359,287
Benlysta Belimumab Brand 53 $284,541
Skyrizi Pen Risankizumab-Rzaa Brand 11 $222,809
Enbrel Etanercept Brand 23 $169,997
Humira Pen Adalimumab Brand 23 $168,902
Humira(Cf) Pen Adalimumab Brand 19 $138,496
Actemra Actpen Tocilizumab Brand 21 $111,644
Cimzia (2 Pack) Certolizumab Pegol Brand 16 $93,127
Orencia Abatacept Brand 14 $82,575
Taltz Autoinjector Ixekizumab Brand 11 $72,700

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 78 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 5,224 Part D prescribers listed as Rheumatology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 37 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$405,558

Of which drugs: $339,959

Medicare patients

173

Average age 66

Services billed

16,069

135 women, 38 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 75%
Diabetes 28%
Depression 27%
Ischemic heart disease 23%
COPD 20%
Chronic kidney disease 17%
Osteoporosis 14%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Infusion, normal saline solution, 250 cc J7050 Office 17 96 $49

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 20 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
RINVOQ
$284 — —
Enbrel
$266 72 —
BENLYSTA
$247 53 —
KRYSTEXXA
$201 — —
ACTHAR
$169 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

993 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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