Has Alan Thomas, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $363,696 in general payments to Alan Thomas, MD across 754 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Alan Thomas, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Alan Thomas, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Alan Thomas, MD

Sleep Medicine · Birmingham, ALNPI 1528066313

Payments from drug & device makers

$363,696in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 754 payments — averaging $482.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$185K
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$88K
GSK$42K
AstraZeneca$23K
Sanofi US Services Inc.$18K
Boehringer Ingelheim$1K
plus $6K from 45 others

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
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	81	$185,305
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	81	$88,422
GSK	158	$41,998
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	75	$23,365
Sanofi US Services Inc.	2	$17,600
Boehringer Ingelheim	67	$1,204
Electromed, Inc.	36	$809
Grifols USA, LLC	39	$687
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	4	$571
Genentech USA, Inc.	29	$375
Insmed, Inc.	25	$359
United Therapeutics Corporation	17	$313
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	14	$276
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	11	$254
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	11	$209
Boston Scientific	6	$165
Johnson & Johnson	8	$134
Sanofi	6	$125
Mylan Specialty L.p.	7	$124
Merck	7	$121
Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC	6	$106
Novo Nordisk	4	$100
Philips North America LLC	6	$99
Shire North American Group Inc	5	$86
Harmony Biosciences LLC	5	$80
Eisai Inc.	5	$80
Novartis	4	$77
Octapharma USA, Inc.	1	$63
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$49
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$46
Intuitive Surgical	1	$46
Resmed Corp	2	$44
AbbVie(2 entities)	3	$43
Chiesi USA, Inc.	2	$33
Amgen	2	$32
Pfizer	2	$29
Gilead	2	$29
Olympus America Inc.	2	$28
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$23
Bridgebio Pharma, Inc.	1	$20
Advanced Respiratory, Inc	1	$20
CSL Behring	1	$19
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Inc	1	$18
Astellas Pharma US Inc	1	$16
Circassia Inc.	1	$16
Bayer	1	$15
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	1	$15
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	1	$14
Optinose US, Inc.	1	$12
Aytu Biopharma, Inc.	1	$12
Biomerieux Inc	1	$9

How this compares

$363,696 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 28 sleep medicine providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$103,981

Medicare patients

539

Services billed

1,544

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Other sleep medicine in Birmingham

Robert DoekelBirmingham$351K
William AdamsBirmingham$181K
Erin OzgunBirmingham$16K
Melissa JordanBirmingham$2K
Weddington KelleyBirmingham$940
Syed NabiBirmingham$457
Stuart PadoveBirmingham$15
Michael LedetDaphne$3M
James RoyHuntsville$823K
Gordon WarnerCullman$784K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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