Benjamin Perrin, MD
Family Medicine · Huntsville, ALNPI 1245763614
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 678 payments — averaging $16.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$1K
- Lilly USA, LLC$1K
- Pfizer$1K
- AstraZeneca$1K
- Amgen$759
- Boehringer Ingelheim$755
- plus $5K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5135%
- Food & beverage$10,38195%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 106 | $1,379 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 90 | $1,203 |
| Pfizer | 77 | $1,146 |
| AstraZeneca | 62 | $1,080 |
| Amgen | 37 | $759 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 52 | $755 |
| AbbVie | 27 | $755 |
| GSK | 52 | $728 |
| Exact Sciences | 21 | $375 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 21 | $351 |
| Bayer | 18 | $343 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 20 | $333 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 11 | $205 |
| Merck | 12 | $203 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 10 | $199 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 8 | $145 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 5 | $109 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $105 |
| Abbott | 6 | $104 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 6 | $99 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 6 | $85 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 4 | $72 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 4 | $67 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $67 |
| Novartis | 2 | $37 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $23 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $20 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 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.
- Prolia$175
How this compares
$10,894 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,680 family 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 28 | $20,828 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 30 | $17,347 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 14 | $14,120 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 14 | $9,032 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 14 | $8,382 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 13 | $7,239 |
| ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf | 32 | $7,146 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 321 | $5,159 |
| AbrysvoRsv Vacc, Pref A And Pref B/Pf | 13 | $4,148 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 37 | $3,344 |
| Losartan Potassium | 170 | $2,741 |
| PaxlovidNirmatrelvir/Ritonavir | 14 | $2,694 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 101 | $2,254 |
| Ezetimibe | 42 | $2,113 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 181 | $2,005 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Shingrix | $728 | $24,56060 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $1,379 | $20,82828 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $1,080 | $17,34730 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $755 | $14,12014 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $333 | $7,23913 claims |
| PfizerAbrysvo, Paxlovid | $1,146 | $6,84127 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $755 | $3,34437 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 1,680 family medicine providers in Alabama.
Other family medicine in Huntsville
- Michael CarterHuntsville$3.4M
- Randle MiddletonHuntsville$3.3M
- Timothy HowardHuntsville$3M
- Edward WittHuntsville$321K
- Kathleen DupperHuntsville$210K
- Whitney TewHuntsville$114K
- Jeffrey GarberHuntsville$87K
- Daniel EnglertHuntsville$82K
- Jack EnglertHuntsville$37K
- Tobin FisherHuntsville$33K
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.