Jerry Lushington, MD
Diagnostic Radiology · Tuscaloosa, ALNPI 1659328227
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. accounts for 70.3% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $874 and has fallen 97.4% since, to $23 in 2025.
Across 22 payments — averaging $51.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$800
- Genentech USA, Inc.$71
- Merck$57
- Novartis$31
- Eisai Inc.$26
- Blueprint Medicines Corporation$25
- plus $127 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$66859%
- Food & beverage$46941%
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. | 6 | $800 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $71 |
| Merck | 3 | $57 |
| Novartis | 2 | $31 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Blueprint Medicines Corporation | 1 | $25 |
| Fennec Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $23 |
| TG Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Amgen | 1 | $14 |
| Bayer | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Biograph mCT$668
How this compares
$1,137 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 448 diagnostic radiology 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.
Other diagnostic radiology in Tuscaloosa
- James BankstonTuscaloosa$2K
- Howard HolleyTuscaloosa$1K
- Jesse JonesBirmingham$161K
- Jubal WattsBirmingham$113K
- Jonathan McConathyBirmingham$34K
- Brian WoodMobile$32K
- George NewmanBirmingham$15K
- Alyssa KnightBirmingham$14K
- Gregory GumHuntsville$9K
- Libby ShadingerHuntsville$8K
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.