Has Eric Hemberg received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,000 in general payments to Eric Hemberg across 463 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Eric Hemberg did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Eric Hemberg come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Eric Hemberg

Family Medicine · Opelika, ALNPI 1992738926

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,000in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 463 payments — averaging $17.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AstraZeneca$2K
GSK$825
Novo Nordisk$697
Pfizer$674
Amarin Pharma, Inc.$420
Merck$419
plus $3K from 40 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$7,963100%
Education$370%

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
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	68	$1,521
GSK	40	$825
Novo Nordisk	37	$697
Pfizer	55	$674
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	15	$420
Merck	37	$419
Boehringer Ingelheim	32	$391
AbbVie(2 entities)	29	$350
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	18	$332
Astellas Pharma US Inc	16	$260
Novartis	14	$214
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$149
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	14	$142
Lilly USA, LLC	12	$136
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$135
Amgen	8	$135
Radius Health, Inc.	7	$134
Abbott	1	$121
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	9	$99
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$93
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	6	$84
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	4	$67
Adlon Therapeutics L.p.	3	$50
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	4	$49
Ardelyx, Inc.	2	$47
Corium, LLC	2	$35
Antares Pharma, Inc.	2	$34
Mylan Specialty L.p.	2	$34
UCB, Inc.	2	$33
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	1	$32
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	2	$26
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$25
Vivus LLC	2	$22
Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.	1	$22
Lundbeck LLC	1	$19
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA	1	$19
Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$19
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC	1	$18
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$18
Boston Scientific	1	$17
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	1	$16
Evoke Pharma, Inc.	1	$16
Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$14
Eisai Inc.	1	$14
Bayer	1	$12
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	1	$12

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

$8,000 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,680 family medicine providers in Alabama.

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Randall QuinnCullman$5.4M
Matthew CaldwellAthens$4.1M
Michael CarterHuntsville$3.4M
Howard RubensteinSaraland$3.3M
Randle MiddletonHuntsville$3.3M
Aaron KarrSheffield$3.1M
Nidal MorrarFoley$3M

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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