Charles William Browning Jr., FNP-C

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician.

• Atrium Health Cleveland Hospital · Shelby, NC · listed as Cleveland County Healthcare System

Colleagues at Gaston Family Health Services Inc

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 98 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Dr. Leah Ruth Broadhurst, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Hickory, NC
• Franklin R Everhart, PA Physician Assistant · Thomasville, NC
• Aregai Abay Girmay, MD Family Medicine Physician · Gastonia, NC
• Thuy Thi Huong Ho, PA-C Physician Assistant · Gastonia, NC
• Bach Tuyet Thi Le, PA-C Physician Assistant · Gastonia, NC
• Chakun Tiffany McDaniel, FNP-C Nurse Practitioner · Gastonia, NC
• Sarah Mishoe, FNP-C Family Nurse Practitioner · Bessemer City, NC
• James Edward Needell, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Lincolnton, NC
• Shirley D Ocloo, MD Family Medicine Physician · Gastonia, NC
• Dr. Wagner Gilbert Santiago, DPM Podiatrist · Gastonia, NC
• Brooke Nicole Schroeder, PA-C Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Lincolnton, NC
• Vaidehi Mahesh Trivedi, MD Pediatrics Physician · Gastonia, NC