Daniel Avery, MD
Sports Medicine · Birmingham, ALNPI 1235440918
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (42.5%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimmer Biomet at 43.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,342 and has fallen 73.2% since, to $1,163 in 2025.
Across 81 payments — averaging $99.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$4K
- Encore Medical, LP$3K
- Prime Surgical, LLC$274
- Arthrosurface Incorporated$262
- Johnson & Johnson$179
- Smith+Nephew$153
- plus $850 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,50019%
- Travel & lodging$3,10539%
- Food & beverage$3,42443%
- Education$180%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 26 | $3,515 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 8 | $2,815 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 2 | $274 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 2 | $262 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 8 | $179 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $153 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $129 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $93 |
| Stryker | 1 | $86 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $83 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 2 | $78 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 5 | $62 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $34 |
| Amgen | 2 | $29 |
| ERMI LLC | 2 | $28 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $27 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Medtronic | 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.
How this compares
$8,048 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 108 sports medicine 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 | 224 | $1,879 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 217 | $1,645 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 183 | $1,430 |
| Methylprednisolone | 59 | $550 |
| Ibuprofen | 46 | $435 |
| Meloxicam | 123 | $418 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 61 | $403 |
| Cephalexin | 44 | $310 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 13 | $297 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 34 | $172 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 22 | $112 |
| Amoxicillin | 29 | $45 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Birmingham
- Edward CainBirmingham$12.7M
- Mark RogersBirmingham$94K
- Amit MomayaBirmingham$77K
- Christoper GarrettBirmingham$58K
- Reaves CrabtreeBirmingham$47K
- David AdkisonBirmingham$46K
- Amir ShahienBirmingham$45K
- Christopher CarterBirmingham$42K
- Christian MerrillBirmingham$40K
- Thomas EvelyBirmingham$34K
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.