Jeffrey Walker, MD
Trauma Surgery · Huntsville, ALNPI 1386808970
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,405 of the $5,376 with a category attached, or 81.9%. It is spread thinly across 29 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,840 and has fallen 65.0% since, to $644 in 2025.
Across 82 payments — averaging $65.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Davol Inc.$781
- AbbVie$715
- C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries$629
- BD$543
- Kerecis Limited$464
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$371
- plus $2K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$30%
- Travel & lodging$96918%
- Food & beverage$4,40582%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Davol Inc. | 7 | $781 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 8 | $715 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 2 | $629 |
| BD | 7 | $543 |
| Kerecis Limited | 5 | $464 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $371 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 7 | $288 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $241 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 2 | $180 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $153 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 6 | $145 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $138 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $129 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Teleflex LLC | 5 | $103 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $56 |
| ICU Medical Inc | 1 | $51 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $43 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $26 |
| Applied Medical Technology Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 2 | $21 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $20 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $16 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$5,376 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 26 trauma 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 | 11 | $31 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other trauma surgery in Huntsville
- Rony NajjarHuntsville$13K
- Kevin TylerHuntsville$2K
- Farin SmithHuntsville$2K
- Matthew SeamanHuntsville$2K
- Deepak KatyalHuntsville$1K
- John VermillionMontgomery$87K
- John HolcombBirmingham$45K
- Jan JansenBirmingham$18K
- Charles ButtsMobile$13K
- James HwangBirmingham$13K
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.