Albert Steele
Internal Medicine · Madison, MSNPI 1588771455
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 202 payments — averaging $16.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$524
- Novo Nordisk$467
- Amgen$395
- Boehringer Ingelheim$215
- Pfizer$186
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$164
- plus $1K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,310100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 33 | $524 |
| Novo Nordisk | 26 | $467 |
| Amgen | 18 | $395 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 17 | $215 |
| Pfizer | 17 | $186 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $164 |
| AstraZeneca | 9 | $155 |
| Merck | 9 | $152 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $145 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $120 |
| GSK | 8 | $119 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $79 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $74 |
| Novartis | 4 | $57 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $54 |
| Abbott | 3 | $52 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $49 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $43 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $40 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $38 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Bayer | 2 | $31 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Gilead | 1 | $15 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 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.
How this compares
$3,310 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 846 internal medicine providers in Mississippi.
Other internal medicine in Madison
- James BridgesMadison$23K
- Richard RussellMadison$11K
- Michael MorganMadison$10K
- J HarrisonMadison$9K
- Eric EvansMadison$8K
- James HallBrookhaven$4.8M
- Bob HutchinsJackson$4.6M
- Sidney GortonBelzoni$571K
- David PendleyGulfport$336K
- Sarah KerutJackson$319K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.