Babatunde Fariyike, MD
Sports Medicine · Birmingham, ALNPI 1982167334
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $23,500 of the $26,865 with a category attached, or 87.5%. Arthrex accounts for 81.2% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 32 payments — averaging $839.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$22K
- Smith+Nephew$4K
- Prime Surgical, LLC$645
- Stryker$249
- Johnson & Johnson$210
- Bioventus LLC$144
What the payments were for
- Grants$23,50087%
- Travel & lodging$1,5936%
- Food & beverage$1,7727%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 13 | $21,825 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $3,792 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 7 | $645 |
| Stryker | 2 | $249 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $210 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $144 |
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.
- RIGIDLOOP$149
- MILAGRO$149
- NA$147
- SPATIAL FRAME$130
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$120
- Journey II$120
- Legion Revision$120
- RI.HIP NAVIGATION$120
- Durolane$112
- INSPACE$101
How this compares
$26,865 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 108 sports 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.
Other sports medicine in Birmingham
- Edward CainBirmingham$12.7M
- Mark RogersBirmingham$94K
- Amit MomayaBirmingham$77K
- Christoper GarrettBirmingham$58K
- Reaves CrabtreeBirmingham$47K
- David AdkisonBirmingham$46K
- Amir ShahienBirmingham$45K
- Christopher CarterBirmingham$42K
- Christian MerrillBirmingham$40K
- Thomas EvelyBirmingham$34K
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.