Herrick Siegel
Orthopaedic Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1780636159
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (48.8%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 48 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimmer Biomet at 42.7% of the total. Among orthopaedic 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 588 payments — averaging $2114.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$531K
- Corentec America Inc$177K
- Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC$128K
- Smith+Nephew$118K
- Signature Orthopaedics USA Corp$97K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$45K
- plus $147K from 42 others
Across 11 payments — averaging $5304.30 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Zimmer Biomet$25K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$24K
- KCI USA, Inc.$9K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$607,10049%
- Consulting fees$414,99033%
- Speaking & faculty fees$81,8427%
- Travel & lodging$115,0919%
- Food & beverage$24,2122%
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.
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.
- Echo$524,218
- Corentec$176,052
- Legion Revision$71,477
- ATTUNE$46,989
- NO CURRENT MARKETED PRODUCT NAME$33,481
- Journey II$29,526
- Legion Hinge$27,323
- Product Under Development - None$26,599
- Taperloc$23,967
- REDAPT$17,296
- NO MARKETED PRODUCT NAME$16,953
- OR3O$16,365
- PICO$15,063
- ENDURO AS$13,816
- ORTHOPILOT$12,872
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$12,702
- POLARSTEM$12,187
- ALTEON$12,000
- Tandem$11,771
- RI.HIP NAVIGATION$11,771
How this compares
$1,243,234 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 319 orthopaedic 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 | 187 | $1,276 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 28 | $1,100 |
| Gabapentin | 76 | $654 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 125 | $522 |
| Celecoxib | 19 | $520 |
| Methocarbamol | 69 | $445 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 11 | $383 |
| Mupirocin | 36 | $328 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 18 | $259 |
| Pregabalin | 24 | $258 |
| Cefadroxil | 12 | $241 |
| Meloxicam | 47 | $226 |
| Amoxicillin | 39 | $175 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 14 | $175 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 15 | $140 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Birmingham
- Jeffrey DugasBirmingham$11.5M
- Benton EmblomBirmingham$3M
- Kenneth MooreBirmingham$342K
- Joseph SherrillBirmingham$221K
- Jonathan QuadeBirmingham$217K
- Ginger BryantBirmingham$209K
- Marcus RothermichBirmingham$207K
- Daniel KimBirmingham$147K
- Eugene BrabstonBirmingham$117K
- Michael JohnsonBirmingham$74K
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.