Donald Gross, MD
Surgery · Tuscaloosa, ALNPI 1720088834
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 103 payments — averaging $47.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Davol Inc.$2K
- Stryker$834
- Intuitive Surgical$809
- Smith+Nephew$224
- AbbVie$209
- TELA Bio, Inc.$124
- plus $918 from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$581%
- Travel & lodging$1,88839%
- Food & beverage$2,93660%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Davol Inc. | 11 | $1,764 |
| Stryker | 2 | $834 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 20 | $809 |
| Smith+Nephew | 7 | $224 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 8 | $209 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 7 | $124 |
| BD | 3 | $114 |
| Conmed Corporation | 3 | $64 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 3 | $57 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 4 | $51 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $50 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $50 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Elucent Medical | 1 | $30 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $28 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $23 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Vertex | 1 | $22 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $21 |
| Hollister Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Merck | 1 | $14 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $13 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $13 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $10 |
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.
- Phasix Mesh$1,613
- 1588 HD 3 CHIP CAMERA$815
- Da Vinci Surgical System$189
- LENS 4K$121
How this compares
$4,881 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 138 | $477 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 21 | $395 |
| Mupirocin | 23 | $203 |
| Gabapentin | 20 | $164 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 11 | $160 |
| Metronidazole | 14 | $54 |
| Cephalexin | 15 | $47 |
| Levofloxacin | 21 | $47 |
| Diazepam | 23 | $24 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $19 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Tuscaloosa
- Joshua ArgoTuscaloosa$14K
- Daniel CoxBirmingham$1.2M
- John PorterfieldBessemer$972K
- Parker HuBirmingham$734K
- Barton WoodAlabaster$702K
- Forrest RingoldMobile$678K
- Adam BeckBirmingham$634K
- Jason BeaverDothan$374K
- Dennis FernandezHuntsville$266K
- Cameron AskewBirmingham$236K
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.