Christina Muzny
Infectious Disease · Birmingham, ALNPI 1366547473
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (51.7%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Cepheid at 36.5% of the total. Among infectious disease clinicians in AL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 117 payments — averaging $951.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cepheid$41K
- Merck$26K
- Abbott$18K
- Roche Diagnostics Corporation$7K
- BD$5K
- Scynexis, Inc.$5K
- plus $9K from 7 others
Across 67 payments — averaging $11,650 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Abbott$666K
- Biontech SE$74K
- Lupin Inc.$34K
- Ortho-clinical Diagnostics, Inc.$7K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$57,56652%
- Speaking & faculty fees$40,38536%
- Travel & lodging$10,0209%
- Food & beverage$3,3033%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cepheid | 39 | $40,585 |
| Merck | 24 | $26,085 |
| Abbott | 14 | $18,444 |
| Roche Diagnostics Corporation | 12 | $6,880 |
| BD | 1 | $5,441 |
| Scynexis, Inc. | 3 | $4,520 |
| Lupin Inc. | 14 | $3,470 |
| Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. | 1 | $2,000 |
| Biofire Diagnostics, LLC | 4 | $1,600 |
| Biontech SE | 1 | $900 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $885 |
| Visby Medical, Inc. | 2 | $338 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
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.
- GENEXPERT$27,347
- XPERT$19,119
- Alinity m$15,613
- CD cobas Analyzer Series$2,500
- cobas 4800 CTNG Test v20$2,400
- COBAS INSTRUMENTS & REAGENTS$2,000
- MD Research and Development$1,860
- VYSIS$1,700
- BIOFIRE RESPIRATORY PANEL 2.1$1,475
- SOLOSEC$1,311
- Visby Medical Sexual Health Click Test$300
- BioFire FilmArray$125
- NUZYRA$125
How this compares
$111,274 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 104 infectious disease 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala | 39 | $143,976 |
| PrezcobixDarunavir/Cobicistat | 11 | $25,074 |
| Vancomycin Hcl | 13 | $1,263 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 14 | $620 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 19 | $485 |
| Gabapentin | 37 | $401 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 21 | $399 |
| Lisinopril | 17 | $87 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 19 | $76 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 15 | $55 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 11 | $54 |
| Omeprazole | 14 | $38 |
| Escitalopram Oxalate | 12 | $32 |
| Clonazepam | 11 | $13 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other infectious disease in Birmingham
- John BaddleyBirmingham$113K
- Sonya HeathBirmingham$80K
- William GeislerBirmingham$63K
- Edward HookBirmingham$61K
- Edgar OvertonBirmingham$46K
- Jane SchwebkeBirmingham$42K
- Peter PappasBirmingham$25K
- Jeanne MarrazzoBirmingham$23K
- Todd McCartyBirmingham$20K
- Anurag GandhiBirmingham$19K
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.