April Irons
Pediatrics · Birmingham, ALNPI 1245558410
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 90 payments — averaging $17.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Corium, LLC$323
- Pfizer$183
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$158
- Merck$99
- Tris Pharma Inc$95
- GSK$89
- plus $658 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,605100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Corium, LLC | 15 | $323 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $183 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 10 | $158 |
| Merck | 6 | $99 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 5 | $95 |
| GSK | 6 | $89 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 5 | $78 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 4 | $67 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 4 | $65 |
| Sobi, Inc | 3 | $60 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 4 | $59 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $44 |
| Noven Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $37 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $34 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 2 | $30 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Insulet Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Zealand Pharma US, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$1,605 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 908 pediatrics providers in Alabama.
Other pediatrics in Birmingham
- Suresh BoppanaBirmingham$2.5M
- William JohnstonBirmingham$2M
- Max HaleBirmingham$1.3M
- David GallowayBirmingham$174K
- Tamera Coyne-BeasleyBirmingham$154K
- Terry WallBirmingham$147K
- Linda HammettBirmingham$123K
- Darby McElderryBirmingham$111K
- Audrey LloydBirmingham$40K
- Sula GillespieBirmingham$19K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.