Has Ashley Ketchum received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,416 in general payments to Ashley Ketchum across 186 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Ashley Ketchum did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Ashley Ketchum come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Ashley Ketchum

Pediatrics · Cullman, ALNPI 1295120871

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 186 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Corium, LLC at 25.5% of the total. Among pediatrics clinicians in AL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$3,416in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 186 payments — averaging $18.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Corium, LLC$870
Merck$579
Sobi, Inc$250
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$222
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$215
GSK$214
plus $1K from 15 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$3,416100%

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	36	$870
Merck	34	$579
Sobi, Inc	13	$250
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	13	$222
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.	11	$215
GSK	13	$214
Tris Pharma Inc	11	$191
Pfizer	10	$145
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	9	$144
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	6	$114
Seqirus USA Inc	4	$68
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	4	$66
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	4	$62
Lilly USA, LLC	4	$61
Allegis Pharmaceuticals, LLC	4	$51
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	3	$40
Novo Nordisk	2	$39
Genentech USA, Inc.	2	$28
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.	1	$23
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.	1	$18
Adlon Therapeutics L.p.	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.

Azstarys$106

How this compares

$3,416 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 908 pediatrics providers in Alabama.

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Other pediatrics in Cullman

Tara FalesCullman$5K
Tamera Coyne-BeasleyBirmingham$154K
Linda HammettBirmingham$123K
Darby McElderryBirmingham$111K
James WileyMobile$44K
Audrey LloydBirmingham$40K
Suresh BoppanaBirmingham$31K
Sula GillespieBirmingham$19K
Brian StansellBirmingham$19K
Leslie PittsBirmingham$10K

See the full list for Alabama →

Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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