Has Hoyt Childs, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,182 in general payments to Hoyt Childs, MD across 54 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 Hoyt Childs, MD 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 Hoyt Childs, MD 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.

Hoyt Childs, MD

Radiation Oncology · Huntsville, ALNPI 1326052358

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $4,360 of the $7,182 with a category attached, or 60.7%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. at 59.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,971 and has fallen 90.1% since, to $295 in 2025. Among radiation oncology clinicians in AL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$7,182in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 54 payments — averaging $133.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$4K
Boston Scientific$3K
Novocure Inc.$120
Varian Medical Systems, Inc.$65
Eisai Inc.$49
Pfizer$26
plus $33 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$76011%
Travel & lodging$4,36061%
Food & beverage$2,06229%

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
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	17	$4,250
Boston Scientific	24	$2,640
Novocure Inc.	5	$120
Varian Medical Systems, Inc.	3	$65
Eisai Inc.	2	$49
Pfizer	1	$26
AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$17
Johnson & Johnson	1	$15

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.

ARIA Radiation Therapy Management Software$3,139
Halcyon$2,340
Eclipse Treatment Planning System for External Beam Radiation Therapy$2,338
SPACEOAR VUE$2,172
TrueBeam$634
Varian Ethos Treatment Planning$190
Varian Treatment$151

How this compares

$7,182 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 87 radiation oncology providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$1,419,376

Medicare patients

661

Services billed

7,017

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
Tamsulosin Hcl	104	$1,649
Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride	31	$725
Bicalutamide	27	$577
Gabapentin	40	$210
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	11	$144
Lidocaine Hcl ViscousLidocaine Hcl	15	$140
Ciprofloxacin Hcl	23	$93
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	16	$77
Oxycodone Hcl	19	$56

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other radiation oncology in Huntsville

John GleasonHuntsville$9K
Harry McCartyHuntsville$6K
Ashlyn EverettHuntsville$6K
Elizabeth FalkenbergHuntsville$971
Alexander WhitleyMontgomery$441K
Drexell BoggsBirmingham$35K
Christopher JahrausAlabaster$28K
Christopher WilleyBirmingham$13K
Adam KoleBirmingham$11K
William HixsonFairhope$10K

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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.

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