Who Paid My Doc
Merlin Brown
Internal Medicine Edina, MN Medical Doctor
NPI 1053317354 CMS profile 820063
6545 France Avenue South, Suite 510, Edina, MN 55435
General payments
$16,091
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2023, Merlin Brown of Edina, MN is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $16,091 across 34 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 96th percentile of Internal Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
5 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | General | $94 | 5 | |
| 2022 | General | $1,100 | 2 | |
| 2021 | General | $12,720 | 5 | |
| 2020 | General | $342 | 5 | |
| 2019 | General | $1,836 | 17 |
Beside peers
- Merlin Brown
- Internal Medicine median
- Middle half of Internal Medicine
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Merlin Brown were reported at $0. Among 52,115 Internal Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $156 and the middle half received between $47 and $551.
Show as a table
| Year | Merlin Brown | Internal Medicine median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $1,836 | $159 | $48–$570 | $163 |
| 2020 | $342 | $119 | $33–$402 | $114 |
| 2021 | $12,720 | $135 | $37–$521 | $132 |
| 2022 | $1,100 | $141 | $42–$496 | $149 |
| 2023 | $94 | $149 | $45–$519 | $160 |
| 2024 | $0 | $154 | $47–$537 | $164 |
| 2025 | $0 | $156 | $47–$551 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 96 drugsPart D claims
3,536
Drug cost
$164,581
Branded share of claims
21.2%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eliquis Apixaban | Brand | 47 | $50,111 | |
| Xarelto Rivaroxaban | Brand | 27 | $28,311 | |
| Mounjaro Tirzepatide | Brand | 12 | $14,361 | |
| Breo Ellipta Fluticasone/Vilanterol | Brand | 14 | $8,781 | |
| Budesonide-Formoterol Fumarate Budesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | Brand | 15 | $5,110 | |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | Generic | 214 | $3,277 | |
| Butalbital-Acetaminophen-Caffe Butalb/Acetaminophen/Caffeine | Brand | 15 | $2,336 | |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | Generic | 132 | $2,185 | |
| Losartan Potassium | Generic | 108 | $2,100 | |
| Sumatriptan Succinate | Generic | 12 | $2,092 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 96 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 · 17 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$33,266
Medicare patients
137
Services billed
957
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 61% | |
| Arthritis | 36% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 22% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 21% | |
| Depression | 18% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 15% | |
| Diabetes | 14% | |
| Cancer | 12% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle 90662 | Office | 12 | 13 | $892 |
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.
Records
34 reportedEvery payment, record by record
Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.