George Crawford, MD
General Surgery · Anniston, ALNPI 1437116456
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $67,571 of the $83,342 with a category attached, or 81.1%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson at 51.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $31,507 and has fallen 95.3% since, to $1,477 in 2025. Among general surgery clinicians in AL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 114 payments — averaging $731.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$43K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$21K
- Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.$10K
- Teleflex LLC$6K
- KARL Storz Endoscopy-america$2K
- Applied Medical Resources Corporation$1K
- plus $492 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$67,57181%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,0807%
- Travel & lodging$7,7249%
- Food & beverage$1,9672%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 56 | $42,776 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 27 | $21,106 |
| Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc. | 5 | $9,505 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $6,080 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 3 | $2,349 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 3 | $1,034 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 12 | $375 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $22 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Standard Bariatrics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Smith+Nephew | 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.
- Harmonic$33,536
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$25,735
- DERMABOND$25,075
- Enseal X1$20,099
- Echelon Circular$18,445
- Proximate$18,050
- DEKNATEL$6,080
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$2,296
- HOPKINS$2,200
- Enseal$1,261
- Echelon Flex$634
- Reltone 200 Mg$122
- GLYCATE$122
- Reltone 400 Mg$122
- ESSENTIAL NEO$112
How this compares
$83,342 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 28 general 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ursodiol | 34 | $2,481 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 113 | $560 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 25 | $331 |
| Metronidazole | 35 | $269 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 19 | $94 |
| Metoclopramide Hcl | 22 | $62 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other general surgery in Anniston
- Richard CurtinAnniston$1K
- Dennis ClarkAnniston$970
- Stanley HewlettBirmingham$97K
- William ThompsonBirmingham$13K
- Kayellen WilloughbyBirmingham$4K
- Lee SchmittBirmingham$3K
- Terisa ThomasGadsden$1K
- Xin HuangBirmingham$909
- Andrea GillisBirmingham$552
- Lacey SwensonBirmingham$540
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.