Alberto Echeverri
Surgery · Gadsden, ALNPI 1609837152
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 44 payments — averaging $24.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$396
- Davol Inc.$192
- TELA Bio, Inc.$127
- CSL Behring$54
- Inari Medical, Inc.$49
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$42
- plus $197 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,058100%
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 | 17 | $396 |
| Davol Inc. | 6 | $192 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 5 | $127 |
| CSL Behring | 2 | $54 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $42 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $17 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $14 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $13 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $12 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$1,058 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 382 surgery providers in Alabama.
Medicare billing
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Piperacillin-TazobactamPiperacillin Sodium/Tazobactam | 14 | $4,285 |
| Vancomycin Hcl | 22 | $2,915 |
| Cephalexin | 138 | $402 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 70 | $309 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 11 | $292 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 81 | $292 |
| Fluconazole | 14 | $218 |
| Levofloxacin | 33 | $210 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 59 | $151 |
| Metronidazole | 11 | $126 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 20 | $94 |
| Ibuprofen | 37 | $66 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 32 | $53 |
| Azithromycin | 11 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Gadsden
- Charles NewmanGadsden$123K
- Paul NordnessGadsden$53K
- Daniel CoxBirmingham$1.2M
- John PorterfieldBessemer$972K
- Parker HuBirmingham$734K
- Barton WoodAlabaster$702K
- Forrest RingoldMobile$678K
- Adam BeckBirmingham$634K
- Jason BeaverDothan$374K
- Dennis FernandezHuntsville$266K
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.