Caroline McGugin, MD
Surgery · Mobile, ALNPI 1053678128
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 32 payments — averaging $20.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$119
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$105
- Merck$88
- TELA Bio, Inc.$74
- Baxter Healthcare$51
- Dilon Technologies, Inc.$31
- plus $185 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$654100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 8 | $119 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 2 | $105 |
| Merck | 4 | $88 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 5 | $74 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $51 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $25 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Stemline Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Elucent Medical | 1 | $20 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Caris MPI, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $14 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$654 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 382 surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 62 | $110 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Mobile
- Forrest RingoldMobile$678K
- William RichardsMobile$78K
- Daniel McMahonMobile$57K
- Andrew BrightMobile$37K
- Ernest BurchMobile$30K
- Daran MasonMobile$21K
- Christopher DyasMobile$18K
- Edward OttsMobile$18K
- Daniel LaneMobile$16K
- Dusty SmithMobile$14K
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.