John Kay, CRNA
Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered · Prattville, ALNPI 1780752451
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,357 of the $2,196 with a category attached, or 61.8%. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 79.2% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,587 and has fallen 79.6% since, to $324 in 2025. Among nurse anesthetist, certified registered 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.
Across 31 payments — averaging $70.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Boston Scientific$193
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$113
- Merck$59
- Convatec Inc.$23
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$20
- plus $50 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,35762%
- Food & beverage$84038%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 10 | $1,740 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $193 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $113 |
| Merck | 4 | $59 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Bayer | 1 | $16 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 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.
- HemoSphere$141
How this compares
$2,196 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,547 nurse anesthetist, certified registered providers in Alabama.
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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 nurse anesthetist, certified registered in Prattville
- Lisa McKinleyMobile$27K
- Amy YerdonHuntsville$18K
- Melissa WendellHuntsville$8K
- Robert RichardsDothan$4K
- Dorothy LoftinBirmingham$3K
- William NewtonMontgomery$3K
- Joseph WrightBirmingham$3K
- Warren FoyHuntsville$3K
- Julie CunninghamBirmingham$3K
- Tammy RodriguezAthens$3K
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.