Heath Beckham, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1366570640
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $3,000 of the $3,837 with a category attached, or 78.2%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 78.5% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,161 and has fallen 96.6% since, to $109 in 2025.
Across 41 payments — averaging $93.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$198
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$120
- Medtronic$106
- Axonics, Inc.$78
- Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.$32
- plus $292 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$83722%
- Education$3,00078%
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 | 2 | $3,011 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $198 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $120 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 6 | $106 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 5 | $78 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $28 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 2 | $26 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $23 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $19 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Concordia Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $11 |
| Prescient Surgical | 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$3,000
- Echelon Circular$102
How this compares
Too few colon & rectal surgery providers in Alabamato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mesalamine | 12 | $4,376 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 54 | $187 |
| Ibuprofen | 34 | $104 |
| Metronidazole | 16 | $36 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Birmingham
- Gregory KennedyBirmingham$21K
- Rachel SaboBirmingham$8K
- Jon RosserBirmingham$8K
- Mark ParkerBirmingham$7K
- Steven ScarcliffBirmingham$4K
- Katherine DeanBirmingham$2K
- Gayla RoyerBirmingham$1K
- Isaac PayneMobile$163K
- Paul RiderMobile$37K
- John HunterMobile$33K
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.