Charles Carruth, MD
Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Tuscaloosa, ALNPI 1770841223
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,472 of the $1,656 with a category attached, or 88.8%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Nevro Corp. at 25.0% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular & interventional radiology clinicians in AL, where the typical reported total is $1,620.
Across 42 payments — averaging $39.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Nevro Corp.$415
- Inari Medical, Inc.$381
- Penumbra, Inc.$189
- Medtronic$127
- Stryker$123
- Terumo Medical Corporation$110
- plus $312 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$18511%
- Food & beverage$1,47289%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nevro Corp. | 8 | $415 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 3 | $381 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 10 | $189 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $127 |
| Stryker | 1 | $123 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 3 | $110 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $101 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 5 | $85 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $53 |
| Argon Medical Devices, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Avinger Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $15 |
| Angiodynamics, 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.
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$572
- Senza$281
- IVS - VERTEBROPLASTY PRODUCTS$123
- Ovation$101
How this compares
$1,656 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 39 vascular & interventional radiology providers in Alabama.
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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.
Other vascular & interventional radiology in Tuscaloosa
- Venkatesh KrishnasamyBirmingham$232K
- David KimHuntsville$191K
- Robert TomaltyHuntsville$110K
- Austin BourgeoisHuntsville$100K
- Junjian HuangBirmingham$76K
- Andrew WhiteBirmingham$10K
- Marshall HutchisonMobile$10K
- Derek SamuelsMobile$9K
- William ParkhurstBirmingham$9K
- Aliaksei SaleiBirmingham$8K
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.