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Industry payments to physicians · Alabama · 2024

Alabama

In Alabama, drug and device makers reported $32M in general payments to 16,322 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $1,953 each — plus $98M tied to research and $2M in ownership interests.

A payment is a disclosed financial tie, not proof of wrongdoing — many are research grants, consulting fees, or royalties a physician earns on a device they invented. Transparency, not a verdict.
$32M
general payments
16,322
covered recipients paid
$1,953
mean per physician

Top specialties in Alabama

General payments by specialty; the figure on the right is the average per physician.

Orthopaedic Surgery $5M
Sports Medicine $4M
Family $1M
Foot and Ankle Surgery $979,263
Dermatology $950,033
Gastroenterology $940,098
Unspecified $939,111
Hematology & Oncology $915,839
Surgery $912,665
Psychiatry $902,421
Family Medicine $888,568
Vascular Surgery $870,264

Highest-paid physicians in Alabama

By total general payments, 2024 — largely device royalties to inventor-physicians.

Edward Cain Sports Medicine · Birmingham · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $3M
Jeffrey Dugas Orthopaedic Surgery · Birmingham · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $3M
Norman Waldrop Foot and Ankle Surgery · Birmingham · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $920,823
Albert Pacifico Vascular Surgery · Birmingham · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $769,465
Benton Emblom Orthopaedic Surgery · Birmingham · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $761,112
Robert Shaffer Gastroenterology · Birmingham · top payer: Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $299,050
Anthony Turkiewicz Rheumatology · Mountain Brk · top payer: Janssen Biotech, Inc. $264,889
Eric Baum Unspecified · Gadsden · top payer: UCB, Inc. $212,204
Herrick Siegel Orthopaedic Surgery · Birmingham · top payer: Corentec America,Inc. $211,384
Theodore Tsaltas Obstetrics & Gynecology · Birmingham · top payer: CSL Plasma Inc. $200,583
James Roy Sleep Medicine · Huntsville · top payer: Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. $199,574
David Mclain Rheumatology · Birmingham · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $186,852
Pamela Mclain Unspecified · Birmingham · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $181,425
Brent Ponce Orthopaedic Surgery · Birmingham · top payer: Stryker Corporation $177,283
Javier Reto Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Huntsville · top payer: Alphatec Spine, Inc $173,182
Leesha Ellis Cox Psychiatry · Birmingham · top payer: ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc.) $170,443
Hugh Mcelderry Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Birmingham · top payer: Boston Scientific Corporation $169,713
Dennis Thomas Cardiovascular Disease · Mobile · top payer: CSL Plasma Inc. $167,174
John Anderson Allergy & Immunology · Homewood · top payer: CSL Behring $161,331
Weily Soong Unspecified · Birmingham · top payer: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $159,658
Anil Rajendra Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Birmingham · top payer: Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $150,070
John Vanloock Dermatology · Mobile · top payer: Genzyme Corporation $149,063
John Porterfield Surgery · Bessemer · top payer: Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $145,304
Armand Schachter Psychiatry · Birmingham · top payer: Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $139,347
Travis Rutland Gastroenterology · Dothan · top payer: Janssen Biotech, Inc. $132,508

RECORDED — CMS Open Payments figures for program year 2024. DERIVED — state totals, per-physician means, and rankings are sums over those records.

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What this is — and is not

A disclosure record of industry–physician financial ties in Alabama — not evidence that any payment influenced care, not a measure of a physician's quality, and not advice about your own doctor. To verify a specific physician, search CMS Open Payments directly.