Alexander Burch
Nurse Practitioner · Opelika, ALNPI 1396207361
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 90 payments — averaging $21.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$336
- Abbott$153
- AstraZeneca$122
- Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$122
- Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$110
- Novo Nordisk$102
- plus $1K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,952100%
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 | 3 | $336 |
| Abbott | 8 | $153 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $122 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $110 |
| Novo Nordisk | 6 | $102 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $94 |
| GSK | 5 | $81 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $76 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $70 |
| Bayer | 3 | $60 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $56 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $47 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $44 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $44 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $43 |
| Merck | 3 | $41 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $37 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 2 | $29 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Novartis | 2 | $28 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Amgen | 1 | $14 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $14 |
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
$1,952 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,505 nurse practitioner providers in Alabama.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Fluticasone Propionate | 15 | $217 |
| Methylprednisolone | 24 | $194 |
| Cephalexin | 16 | $66 |
| Meloxicam | 16 | $42 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in Opelika
- Donald UptonOpelika$14K
- Carla HudsonOpelika$9K
- Brooke CauslandOpelika$8K
- Erin TannerAlabaster$141K
- Ardie Pack MabienMobile$126K
- Ginger McDanielBirmingham$27K
- Audrey MorganMontgomery$24K
- Hollie CrutchfieldDothan$22K
- Leah GravesBirmingham$21K
- Lauren DowneyBirmingham$19K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.