Catherine Faught, PA
Surgical · Vestavia, ALNPI 1669144184
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 35 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 17 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $517, more than ten times the $14 reported in 2021.
Across 35 payments — averaging $35.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$297
- Edwards Lifesciences$217
- Atricure, Inc.$154
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$99
- Cvrx, Inc.$68
- Prime Surgical, LLC$66
- plus $343 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,244100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 8 | $297 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $217 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 6 | $154 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $68 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 2 | $66 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 3 | $61 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $50 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 1 | $45 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Medtronic | 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.
How this compares
$1,244 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 162 surgical 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 23 | $362 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 42 | $290 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 23 | $273 |
| Potassium Chloride | 52 | $177 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 15 | $57 |
| Furosemide | 53 | $56 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical in Vestavia
- Jennifer RawlingsVestavia$7K
- Travis BlackburnVestavia$2K
- Jamie GoberVestavia$2K
- Michael CilimbergTuscaloosa$10K
- Heather ForsonBirmingham$8K
- Kelli HeerDothan$8K
- Suzanne Powe VickersBirmingham$8K
- Erica AbneyTuscaloosa$8K
- Chelsi DavisJasper$7K
- Samuel MurphreeBirmingham$6K
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.