Alan Gertler
Cardiovascular Disease · Birmingham, ALNPI 1548211618
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 139 payments — averaging $17.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$378
- Novartis$349
- Pfizer$346
- Novo Nordisk$323
- Amgen$191
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$160
- plus $661 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,407100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 27 | $378 |
| Novartis | 18 | $349 |
| Pfizer | 14 | $346 |
| Novo Nordisk | 19 | $323 |
| Amgen | 14 | $191 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 7 | $160 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $131 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 6 | $100 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $97 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $86 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $80 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 5 | $66 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $55 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $33 |
| Merck | 1 | $12 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- ELIQUIS$121
How this compares
$2,407 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 292 cardiovascular disease providers in Alabama.
Other cardiovascular disease in Birmingham
- Mustafa AhmedBirmingham$2.5M
- Alain BouchardBirmingham$1.9M
- Steven JonesBirmingham$1M
- Pankaj AroraBirmingham$889K
- Vikram AroraBirmingham$810K
- Robert BourgeBirmingham$590K
- Hutton BrantleyBirmingham$316K
- Thomas CawthonBirmingham$306K
- William RogersBirmingham$264K
- Farrell MendelsohnBirmingham$251K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.