Byron Jones
Cardiovascular Disease · Birmingham, ALNPI 1245234137
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 197 payments — averaging $15.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$968
- Johnson & Johnson$295
- Amgen$221
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$184
- Pfizer$164
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$151
- plus $1K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,89097%
- Education$993%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 81 | $968 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 22 | $295 |
| Amgen | 16 | $221 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 11 | $184 |
| Pfizer | 11 | $164 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $151 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 8 | $135 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $114 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $94 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $87 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $56 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $48 |
| Abbott | 3 | $48 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $47 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 3 | $40 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $38 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $16 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $15 |
| Gilead | 1 | $14 |
| Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Merck | 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
$2,989 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 292 cardiovascular disease providers in Alabama.
Other cardiovascular disease in Birmingham
- Mustafa AhmedBirmingham$2.5M
- Alain BouchardBirmingham$1.9M
- Steven JonesBirmingham$1M
- Pankaj AroraBirmingham$889K
- Vikram AroraBirmingham$810K
- Robert BourgeBirmingham$590K
- Hutton BrantleyBirmingham$316K
- Thomas CawthonBirmingham$306K
- William RogersBirmingham$264K
- Farrell MendelsohnBirmingham$251K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.