Jimmie Dotson, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Birmingham, ALNPI 1932300571
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 385 payments — averaging $20.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$2K
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$1K
- Abbott$878
- Amgen$399
- Johnson & Johnson$397
- Pfizer$395
- plus $3K from 32 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6438%
- Food & beverage$7,36892%
- Education$80%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 155 | $1,963 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 8 | $1,145 |
| Abbott | 6 | $878 |
| Amgen | 31 | $399 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 32 | $397 |
| Pfizer | 23 | $395 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 15 | $256 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 15 | $239 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 8 | $239 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $205 |
| Novo Nordisk | 13 | $187 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $172 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 9 | $163 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 10 | $162 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $130 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| AstraZeneca | 8 | $109 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $100 |
| Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $77 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 4 | $70 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $64 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $63 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $61 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Merck | 3 | $48 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Bayer | 2 | $44 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $39 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $14 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, 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.
- Auryon Laser System 100-120 Vac$986
- SUPERA$633
- XIENCE SIERRA$181
- Impella$136
- LifeVest$136
- TandemLife$130
- Barostim Neo System$116
- Watchman$109
- HawkOne$100
How this compares
$8,019 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 109 interventional cardiology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 431 | $397,900 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 196 | $181,369 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 90 | $86,832 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 73 | $58,231 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 11 | $16,820 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 326 | $6,815 |
| Sildenafil Citrate | 21 | $6,694 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 49 | $4,632 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 201 | $3,138 |
| Carvedilol | 288 | $3,111 |
| Bumetanide | 68 | $2,811 |
| Potassium Chloride | 110 | $2,116 |
| Hydralazine Hcl | 93 | $2,030 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 131 | $1,999 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 59 | $1,763 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $395 | $397,900431 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $1,963 | $181,369196 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $397 | $86,83290 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $162 | $16,82011 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 40th percentile of 109 interventional cardiology providers in Alabama.
Other interventional cardiology in Birmingham
- Robert FosterBirmingham$553K
- Brigitta BrottBirmingham$376K
- Gary RoubinBirmingham$196K
- Massoud LeesarBirmingham$160K
- David SchultzBirmingham$95K
- Joshua CockrellBirmingham$93K
- Hasan GuvenBirmingham$86K
- Abdullah MahmoodBirmingham$61K
- Ali EbrahimiBirmingham$55K
- Jacob TownsendBirmingham$52K
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.