James Gunn
Plastic Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1235340779
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Merz North America, Inc. accounts for 61.0% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $5,620 and has fallen 79.8% since, to $1,133 in 2025.
Across 135 payments — averaging $69.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merz North America, Inc.$6K
- AbbVie$1K
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$658
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$587
- Motiva USA, LLC$444
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$214
- plus $723 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,40047%
- Food & beverage$5,02353%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merz North America, Inc. | 17 | $5,752 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 47 | $1,046 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 36 | $658 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 6 | $587 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 14 | $444 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 2 | $214 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 4 | $210 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $141 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $134 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $44 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $32 |
| Stryker | 1 | $26 |
| Tepha Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $16 |
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.
How this compares
$9,423 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 35 plastic surgery providers in Alabama.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 12 | $79 |
| Azithromycin | 16 | $59 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 12 | $41 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in Birmingham
- Stephen SteinmetzBirmingham$18K
- Christopher SchafferBirmingham$12K
- Michael ClintonBirmingham$6K
- Jason JackBirmingham$4K
- Joshua HalkaBirmingham$4K
- Grady CoreBirmingham$4K
- Rene MyersBirmingham$4K
- Sherry CollawnBirmingham$4K
- William HeddenBirmingham$3K
- Shreyas MakwanaBirmingham$2K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.