Andrea Esparza
Primary Care · Montgomery, ALNPI 1174138929
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 96.9% of the total across 207 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 31.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,744 and has fallen 96.7% since, to $57 in 2023.
Across 207 payments — averaging $15.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$604
- Gilead$333
- Pfizer$218
- Evoke Pharma, Inc.$183
- Intra-sana Laboratories$152
- plus $686 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,09197%
- Gifts$1003%
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 | 69 | $1,015 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 45 | $604 |
| Gilead | 18 | $333 |
| Pfizer | 18 | $218 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 16 | $183 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 3 | $152 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 8 | $142 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 6 | $124 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $109 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 5 | $99 |
| Merck | 4 | $55 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $36 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $28 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $14 |
| Vivus LLC | 1 | $11 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- TRULANCE$125
- Rinvoq$101
- Reltone 200 Mg$100
- Reltone 400 Mg$100
How this compares
$3,191 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 159 primary care providers in Alabama.
Other primary care in Montgomery
- Sandria WarrenMontgomery$7K
- Shaneka FeaginMontgomery$3K
- Keith MatthewsOpelika$20K
- Troy HendersonFultondale$18K
- April TateDothan$16K
- Brandy McGrawMobile$14K
- Cleo ValdezHuntsville$14K
- Larissa RobinsonJasper$11K
- Jamie GhrigsbyMoulton$9K
- Josh WarrenBirmingham$9K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.