Cynthia Hlavacek, MD
Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1356798649
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $7,000 of the $9,372 with a category attached, or 74.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 82.1% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $4,368 and has fallen 96.9% since, to $137 in 2025.
Across 58 payments — averaging $161.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$8K
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$494
- Conmed Corporation$361
- C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries$209
- AbbVie$144
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$135
- plus $337 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1151%
- Travel & lodging$4735%
- Food & beverage$1,78419%
- Education$7,00075%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 21 | $7,692 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 6 | $494 |
| Conmed Corporation | 4 | $361 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 3 | $209 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $144 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $135 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $46 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2 | $37 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 1 | $31 |
| Vertex | 1 | $22 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $20 |
| Elucent Medical | 1 | $16 |
| BD | 1 | $15 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $11 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$4,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$3,179
- CONQUEST$423
- PHASIX$153
- CONMED SMOKE EVACUATION$148
- AIRSEAL$148
- ABC HANDPIECES$105
How this compares
$9,372 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 | 69 | $376 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Birmingham
- Cameron AskewBirmingham$236K
- John TouliatosBirmingham$75K
- Jayme LockeBirmingham$63K
- Eric DuboisBirmingham$36K
- Sherry MeltonBirmingham$29K
- Wesley DesselleBirmingham$21K
- Boris KiriazovBirmingham$17K
- Adam BeckBirmingham$17K
- Kristen WongBirmingham$11K
- Naveen SinganamalaBirmingham$9K
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.