Brandon Johnson, MD
Hematology & Oncology · Opelika, ALNPI 1730162595
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 154 payments — averaging $19.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$295
- Gilead$281
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$260
- Merck$235
- AstraZeneca$221
- Bristol Myers Squibb$156
- plus $2K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1003%
- Food & beverage$2,70988%
- Education$2649%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 19 | $295 |
| Gilead(2 entities) | 17 | $281 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 19 | $260 |
| Merck | 10 | $235 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 8 | $221 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 8 | $156 |
| GSK | 6 | $117 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 5 | $117 |
| Array Biopharma Inc | 6 | $110 |
| Abbott | 1 | $108 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $105 |
| Novartis | 4 | $103 |
| Comsort, Inc | 1 | $100 |
| Amgen | 5 | $97 |
| Bayer | 4 | $80 |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company | 3 | $71 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $70 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $60 |
| Seagen Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Beigene USA, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Springworks Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Beone Medicines USA, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $30 |
| Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Roche Diagnostics Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Novocure Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Geron Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Epizyme, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
How this compares
$3,072 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 177 hematology & oncology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| XtandiEnzalutamide | 227 | $2,956,564 |
| Lenalidomide | 82 | $933,495 |
| RevlimidLenalidomide | 41 | $737,116 |
| PomalystPomalidomide | 30 | $672,933 |
| ImbruvicaIbrutinib | 50 | $641,199 |
| CalquenceAcalabrutinib Maleate | 32 | $483,438 |
| SprycelDasatinib | 24 | $421,353 |
| VerzenioAbemaciclib | 22 | $333,594 |
| TagrissoOsimertinib Mesylate | 19 | $316,845 |
| CabometyxCabozantinib S-Malate | 12 | $289,512 |
| NubeqaDarolutamide | 20 | $260,715 |
| OrgovyxRelugolix | 77 | $199,276 |
| LonsurfTrifluridine/Tipiracil Hcl | 18 | $175,406 |
| PromactaEltrombopag Olamine | 21 | $173,022 |
| Abiraterone Acetate | 98 | $163,924 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Astellas Pharma US IncXtandi | $60 | $2,956,564227 claims |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Pomalyst, Sprycel | $260 | $1,094,28654 claims |
| AstraZenecaCalquence, Tagrisso | $221 | $800,28351 claims |
| Bristol Myers SquibbRevlimid | $156 | $737,11641 claims |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie CompanyImbruvica | $71 | $641,19950 claims |
| Exelixis Inc.Cabometyx | $41 | $289,51212 claims |
| BayerNubeqa | $80 | $260,71520 claims |
| NovartisPromacta | $103 | $173,02221 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $295 | $33,49452 claims |
| AbbVieCreon | $105 | $24,79615 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 25th percentile of 177 hematology & oncology providers in Alabama.
Other hematology & oncology in Opelika
- Luciano CostaBirmingham$32.8M
- Amitkumar MehtaBirmingham$18.6M
- Erica Stringer-ReasorBirmingham$18.1M
- Susan BalBirmingham$11.3M
- Pankit VachhaniBirmingham$7.9M
- Mehmet AkceBirmingham$5.4M
- Michael MeshadMobile$5.3M
- Mayur NarkhedeBirmingham$4.9M
- Christos VaklavasBirmingham$4.9M
- Lisle NabellBirmingham$3.3M
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.