Forrest Ringold, MD
Surgery · Mobile, ALNPI 1881612786
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,042 payments — averaging $650.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$496K
- Teleflex LLC$98K
- Standard Bariatrics, Inc.$65K
- Suture Ease, Inc.$7K
- New Wave Endo-surgical Corp.$4K
- Medtronic$3K
- plus $5K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$80,55012%
- Speaking & faculty fees$166,43325%
- Travel & lodging$70,47410%
- Food & beverage$25,7714%
- Education$332,74149%
- Other$1,6650%
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 | 796 | $496,455 |
| Teleflex LLC | 94 | $97,682 |
| Standard Bariatrics, Inc. | 63 | $65,102 |
| Suture Ease, Inc. | 2 | $6,750 |
| New Wave Endo-surgical Corp. | 1 | $4,000 |
| Medtronic | 33 | $2,744 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 3 | $1,466 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $1,055 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 6 | $1,037 |
| Novo Nordisk | 8 | $388 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 9 | $222 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $186 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $168 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 6 | $79 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $75 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Vertex | 1 | $20 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $18 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $16 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $15 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 1 | $14 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $14 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Davol 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$476,135
- TITAN SGS STANDARD GASTRIC STAPLER$94,238
- Titan SGS$40,441
- TITAN SGS BAILOUT CHUCK$22,536
- DA VINCI SP$7,000
- STANDARD CLAMP, DISPOSABLE$3,750
- Signia$1,757
- PuraPly$1,466
- LINX Reflux Management System$1,055
- LigaSure$295
- Wegovy$247
- EndoFlip$227
- SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforcement$186
- DEKNATEL$146
How this compares
$677,634 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 | 59 | $210 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Mobile
- William RichardsMobile$78K
- Daniel McMahonMobile$57K
- Andrew BrightMobile$37K
- Ernest BurchMobile$30K
- Daran MasonMobile$21K
- Christopher DyasMobile$18K
- Edward OttsMobile$18K
- Daniel LaneMobile$16K
- Dusty SmithMobile$14K
- Richard RieskeMobile$13K
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.