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

Kenneth Brightfield

Internal Medicine Saint Louis, MO Medical Doctor

NPI 1881613347 CMS profile 357941

12855 N 40 Dr, Saint Louis, MO 63141

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General payments

$4,384

276 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, Kenneth Brightfield of Saint Louis, MO is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $4,384 across 276 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 88th percentile of Internal Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

6 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $411 24
2024 General $867 50
2023 General $908 54
2022 General $611 34
2020 General $531 39
2019 General $1,056 75

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Kenneth Brightfield
  • Internal Medicine median
  • Middle half of Internal Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Kenneth Brightfield were reported at $411. Among 52,115 Internal Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $156 and the middle half received between $47 and $551.

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Year Kenneth Brightfield Internal Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $1,056 $159 $48–$570 $163
2020 $531 $119 $33–$402 $114
2021 $0 $135 $37–$521 $132
2022 $611 $141 $42–$496 $149
2023 $908 $149 $45–$519 $160
2024 $867 $154 $47–$537 $164
2025 $411 $156 $47–$551 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AbbVie, Inc. $879 55 payments
  2. Novo Nordisk Inc $550 34 payments
  3. Pfizer Inc. $383 26 payments
  4. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $359 26 payments
  5. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $328 18 payments
  6. Lilly USA, LLC $210 11 payments
  7. Abbott Laboratories $197 12 payments
  8. Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $127 8 payments
  9. Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC $117 7 payments
  10. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $114 8 payments
  11. Other $1,121 71 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $4,365 275 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $19 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. UBRELVY $546 35 payments
  2. QULIPTA $306 16 payments
  3. Ozempic $250 15 payments
  4. LEQVIO $223 11 payments
  5. VRAYLAR $186 11 payments
  6. MOUNJARO $177 9 payments
  7. SHINGRIX $168 10 payments
  8. RYBELSUS $150 9 payments
  9. TRELEGY ELLIPTA $145 12 payments
  10. ELIQUIS $144 10 payments
  11. Other $3,402 220 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 · 101 drugs

Part D claims

7,683

Median for Internal Medicine: 777

Drug cost

$389,152

Median for Internal Medicine: $73,373

Branded share of claims

16%

Median for Internal Medicine: 19.3%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 141 $140,856
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 23 $32,675
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 18 $27,002
Januvia Sitagliptin Phosphate Brand 17 $26,882
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 12 $19,489
Arexvy Rsvpref3 Antigen/As01e/Pf Brand 65 $17,211
Ozempic Semaglutide Brand 17 $16,530
Abrysvo Rsv Vacc, Pref A And Pref B/Pf Brand 51 $12,321
Tresiba Flextouch U-100 Insulin Degludec Brand 15 $7,038
Synthroid Levothyroxine Sodium Brand 74 $6,739

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 101 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 104,182 Part D prescribers listed as Internal Medicine; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 28 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$152,730

Of which drugs: $6,668

Medicare patients

573

Average age 76

Services billed

1,817

284 women, 289 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 61%
Arthritis 58%
Ischemic heart disease 24%
Diabetes 17%
Atrial fibrillation 17%
Cancer 16%
Chronic kidney disease 13%
Osteoporosis 12%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle 90662 Office 53 53 $4,327
Sarscv2 vac 30mcg trs-suc im 91320 Office 11 11 $1,681

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 26 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
LEQVIO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $118
$118 — —
UBRELVY
  • AbbVie, Inc. $95
$95 — —
VRAYLAR
  • AbbVie, Inc. $81
$81 — —
QULIPTA
  • AbbVie, Inc. $64
$64 — —
Ozempic
  • Novo Nordisk Inc $52
$52 17 —

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

276 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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