Baylor Blickenstaff, MD
Sports Medicine · Birmingham, ALNPI 1023674272
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $23,500 of the $27,399 with a category attached, or 85.8%. Arthrex accounts for 75.6% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $22,217 and has fallen 77.4% since, to $5,011 in 2025.
Across 51 payments — averaging $537.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$21K
- Smith+Nephew$4K
- Stryker$893
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$713
- Prime Surgical, LLC$510
- Music City Medical Technologies, LLC$359
- plus $511 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$23,50086%
- Travel & lodging$9614%
- Food & beverage$2,93911%
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 | 10 | $20,720 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $3,693 |
| Stryker | 11 | $893 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $713 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 6 | $510 |
| Music City Medical Technologies, LLC | 4 | $359 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $267 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $144 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $32 |
| Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Vertex | 1 | $15 |
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.
- NA$657
- INSPACE$157
- T2 ALPHA$142
- HEALIX KNOTLESS PEEK$141
- TRITANIUM$138
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$120
- Journey II$120
- Legion Revision$120
- RI.HIP NAVIGATION$120
- AIR$115
- MAKOPLASTY$114
- Durolane$112
How this compares
$27,399 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.