RxDoctor Payments Data

Jeffrey Curtis

Rheumatology · Birmingham, ALNPI 1669415725

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $515,341 of the $612,072 with a category attached, or 84.2%. It is spread thinly across 34 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 12.7%. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $160,964 and has fallen 69.1% since, to $49,770 in 2025. Among rheumatology 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.

$612,072in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 342 payments — averaging $1789.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$77K
  • Radius Health, Inc.$64K
  • Pfizer$60K
  • Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$56K
  • Sanofi$53K
  • Eli Lilly$45K
  • plus $256K from 28 others
$17,098,677in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 181 payments — averaging $94,468 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.

  • Amgen$13.8M
  • Pfizer$2.1M
  • AbbVie$720K
  • Novartis$170K
  • Radius Health, Inc.$161K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$85K
  • plus $64K from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$515,34184%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$52,2439%
  • Travel & lodging$36,5446%
  • Food & beverage$3,9961%
  • Education$3,9471%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Amgen43$77,494
Radius Health, Inc.19$63,939
Pfizer21$59,925
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC26$56,299
Sanofi22$52,934
Eli Lilly19$45,129
AbbVie24$37,218
GSK22$31,037
Modernatx, Inc.16$24,194
UCB SA5$18,966
Sandoz6$16,448
Johnson & Johnson16$15,923
Regeneron21$15,118
Novartis11$14,799
UCB, Inc.20$14,367
Gilead16$12,459
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.4$11,950
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC10$11,593
Sanofi US Services Inc.3$9,744
Astrazeneca UK Limited3$7,518
Inova Diagnostics, Inc.2$4,860
Whitehall International Inc1$3,400
Invivyd Inc1$2,013
Mylan Inc.1$1,563
F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG1$840
Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.1$750
Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC1$650
Samsung Bioepis Co., Ltd.1$550
Cardinal Health 110 LLC1$138
Janssen Research & Development, LLC1$82
Encore Medical, LP1$71
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.1$49
Biotissue Holdings Inc.1$29
Lilly USA, LLC1$21

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

$612,072 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 90 rheumatology providers in Alabama.

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