Ashley Cole, MD
Emergency Medicine · Fort Payne, ALNPI 1841424959
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 27 payments — averaging $18.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$147
- KCI USA, Inc.$121
- Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$101
- Osiris Therapeutics Inc.$29
- Organogenesis Inc.$24
- Zimmer Biomet$24
- plus $54 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$501100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $147 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 5 | $121 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $101 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $24 |
| Ceribell, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $14 |
| RARE Disease Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $9 |
How this compares
$501 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 565 emergency medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 47 | $494 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 17 | $397 |
| Sucralfate | 16 | $372 |
| Cefdinir | 19 | $339 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 25 | $261 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 11 | $139 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 28 | $138 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 13 | $129 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 38 | $109 |
| Metronidazole | 11 | $99 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 19 | $68 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 33 | $67 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 17 | $58 |
| Prednisone | 36 | $49 |
| Clonazepam | 12 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other emergency medicine in Fort Payne
- Steven OmaraMontgomery$2.1M
- Jason BegueBirmingham$1M
- Mark MitchellAtmore$309K
- James GalbraithBirmingham$188K
- Norman GarrisonMontgomery$69K
- Lauren WalterBirmingham$64K
- Mark ChristensenBoaz$31K
- Ziad KazziBirmingham$30K
- Lisa Moreno-WaltonMobile$23K
- Keith ParishHoover$16K
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.