D'lisa Bitterly, MD
Surgery · Cullman, ALNPI 1528321338
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $6,500 of the $9,466 with a category attached, or 68.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 85.4% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $8,635, more than ten times the $272 reported in 2023.
Across 70 payments — averaging $135.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$8K
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$235
- Davol Inc.$173
- Urgo Medical North America, LLC$143
- Solventum Corporation$127
- Medtronic$68
- plus $639 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,41415%
- Food & beverage$1,55216%
- Education$6,50069%
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 | 16 | $8,079 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 10 | $235 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $173 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 7 | $143 |
| Solventum Corporation | 5 | $127 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $68 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $66 |
| UCB, Inc. | 3 | $65 |
| Vertex | 3 | $63 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $58 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 3 | $52 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 2 | $47 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $28 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $25 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $21 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $20 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 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.
- DAVINCI XI$6,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,383
- Phasix Mesh$173
How this compares
$9,466 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf | 14 | $2,098 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 31 | $400 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 11 | $97 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 29 | $65 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Cullman
- Brad MoodyCullman$11K
- John PorterfieldBessemer$972K
- Barton WoodAlabaster$702K
- Forrest RingoldMobile$678K
- Dennis FernandezHuntsville$266K
- Cameron AskewBirmingham$236K
- Terry TreadwellMontgomery$127K
- Charles NewmanGadsden$123K
- Jason BeaverDothan$106K
- John TouliatosBirmingham$75K
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.