James Cooper Brien, MD

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

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. Those with a page here are linked.

• Pardee Hospital Henderson County Hospital · Hendersonville, NC · listed as Henderson County Hospital Corp
• The McDowell Hospital Hospital · Marion, NC · listed as The McDowell Hospital, Inc
• Advent Health Polk Hospital · Columbus, NC
• Adventhealth Hendersonville Hospital · Hendersonville, NC
• Memorial Mission Hospital And Asheville Surgery Ce Hospital · Asheville, NC

Colleagues at Adventhealth Medical Group Cancer and Specialty Care LLC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 20 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Cynthia Ann Ballenger, MD Radiation Oncology Physician · Smithfield, NC
• Dr. Daniel G. Baseman, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Brevard, NC
• Sumita Bhatia, MD Radiation Oncology Physician · Aurora, IL
• Dr. John Francis Burns, MD Urology Physician · Jackson, MS
• Dr. Brian C Cook, MD Specialist · Clinton, NC
• Dominic Carlton Dewaters Grimberg, MD Urology Physician · Asheville, NC
• Steven Daniel Jurczak, PA Physician Assistant · Asheville, NC
• Dr. Joseph R Kelley, MD, PHD Radiation Oncology Physician · Asheville, NC
• Dr. Kevin James Kerlin, MD, FACRO Specialist · Goldsboro, NC
• Mr. Jake Henry Mills, PA-C Physician Assistant · Asheville, NC
• Savannah Sipperly, PA Surgical Physician Assistant · Raleigh, NC
• MS. Jennifer A Trimble, PA Physician Assistant · Asheville, NC

Other providers in Asheville

• Bruce Griffey Armstrong, MD

  Individual Urology Physician · NPI 1205831815

  1 Doctors Park, Asheville, NC 28801-4500 · (828) 253-5314

• Asheville Urological Assoc Inc

  Organization Urology Physician · NPI 1790782340

  1 Doctors Park, Asheville, NC 28801-4500 · (828) 253-5314

• Dr. Ricky L Bare, MD

  Individual Urology Physician · NPI 1164414702

  1 Doctors Park, Asheville, NC 28801-4500 · (828) 253-5314

• Dr. John George Cargill III, MD

  Individual Urology Physician · NPI 1144268939

  1 Doctors Park, Asheville, NC 28801-4500 · (828) 253-5314

• Dr. Brian Louis Cohen, MD

  Individual Urology Physician · NPI 1336340579

  100 Victoria Rd, Asheville, NC 28801-4812 · (828) 254-8883

• Dr. Alan David Friedman I, MD

  Individual Urology Physician · NPI 1336133412

  100 Victoria Rd, Asheville, NC 28801-4812 · (828) 254-8883

• Dr. Karen Renee Frye, MD

  Individual Urology Physician · NPI 1457345639

  100 Victoria Rd, Asheville, NC 28801-4812 · (828) 254-8883