Open Payments · Alabama

What drug & device companies paid Alabama doctors

Between 2018 and 2024, companies reported $783M in payments to 27,890 Alabama physicians and teaching hospitals. Explore totals by congressional district and county, company, and recipient. ‹ Back to the national map

Analysis by , Chief Technology Officer at Civly · built from the complete CMS Open Payments release, program years 2018–2024.

$783M
reported 2018–2024
27,890
physicians paid
$28,083
avg / physician
1,768
companies paying
$10M
biggest recipient

Shaded by total reported payments. Hover an area for detail; click to drill in. ZIP→area mapping covers ~98% of payments (PO-box/unique ZIPs excluded). Source: CMS Open Payments, loaded by Civly.

Who pays Alabama doctors, and who gets paid

Reported payments for 2018–2024 from CMS Open Payments. A reported payment alone does not indicate wrongdoing.

Top payers

Drug & device companies, 2018–2024
PFIZER INC.$50M
Amgen Inc.$48M
Janssen Research & Development…$32M
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corpo…$31M
Genentech, Inc.$27M
Arthrex, Inc.$26M
Eli Lilly and Company$22M
Celgene Corporation$20M
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP$17M
ABBVIE INC.$17M

Biggest recipients

Alabama physicians by total received, 2018–2024
Cain Edward$10M
Dugas Jeffrey$9M
Pacifico Albert$5M
Waldrop Norman$3M
Turkiewicz Anthony$2M
Emblom Benton$2M
Whitley Richard$1M
Siegel Herrick$1M

Top specialties

By total received, 2018–2024
Orthopaedic Surgery$21M
Sports Medicine$11M
Internal Medicine$8M
Neurology$7M
Dermatology$7M
Rheumatology$7M
Family Medicine$7M
Surgery$6M

By the numbers, 2018–2024

27,890

physicians and teaching hospitals took at least one payment.

$783M

reported across 1,887,142 individual payments.

How Alabama compares nationally

Alabama ranks 24th of 51 for total reported payments, with $783M across 1,887,142 payments from 2018 to 2024. That is 1.0% of the $78.26B reported nationwide. Payments averaged $28,083 per recipient across 27,890 physicians and teaching hospitals, about 32% below the $41,481 national average (28th of 51 per physician). The largest payer was PFIZER INC. at $50M. The highest-paid specialty was Orthopaedic Surgery. The largest individual recipient, Cain Edward, received $10M across 305 payments.

#24
of 51 — total payments
#28
of 51 — per physician
1.0%
of all U.S. payments

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