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Christopher Edwards, MD

Family Medicine · Athens, ALNPI 1619187663

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,262,048in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 845 payments — averaging $2676.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Modernatx, Inc.$2.2M
  • Pfizer$77K
  • Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$4K
  • AstraZeneca$241
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$188
  • Johnson & Johnson$70
  • plus $203 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$726100%

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

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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.

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

$2,262,048 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,680 family medicine providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$83,682
Medicare patients
514
Services billed
875

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban25$14,740
Desvenlafaxine Succinate ErDesvenlafaxine Succinate15$506
Cefdinir27$442
Cephalexin43$248
Glycopyrrolate26$213
Tizanidine Hcl49$209
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav16$198
Potassium Chloride32$169
Clindamycin Hcl11$157
Doxycycline Hyclate24$146
Ondansetron Hcl31$144
Memantine Hcl21$133
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen36$126
Prednisone68$121
Quetiapine Fumarate21$105

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
PfizerEliquis$76,877$14,74025 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 1,680 family medicine providers in Alabama.

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