John Riehl, MD
Sports Medicine · Decatur, ALNPI 1487727764
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $5,847 of the $8,055 with a category attached, or 72.6%. DJO, LLC accounts for 72.6% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 136 payments — averaging $59.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- DJO, LLC$6K
- Si-bone, Inc.$800
- Zimmer Biomet$547
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$178
- Encore Medical, LP$137
- Smith+Nephew$129
- plus $417 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,84773%
- Travel & lodging$3524%
- Food & beverage$1,85623%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| DJO, LLC | 82 | $5,847 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 28 | $800 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 10 | $547 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $178 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $137 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $129 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 1 | $124 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $90 |
| Stryker | 1 | $65 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $39 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- PROCARE$4,053
- Persona$316
- CellerateRx$178
- DJO SURGICAL$137
- EVOS$111
How this compares
$8,055 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 108 sports medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 182 | $3,490 |
| Methylprednisolone | 244 | $1,923 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 84 | $601 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 51 | $457 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 49 | $349 |
| Ibuprofen | 39 | $334 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 136 | $314 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 108 | $138 |
| Cephalexin | 14 | $128 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 21 | $115 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 24 | $102 |
| Meloxicam | 39 | $91 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 13 | $55 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Decatur
- Justin HallockDecatur$43K
- Robert TapscottDecatur$6K
- Richard SharpDecatur$6K
- Russell EllisDecatur$6K
- Edward CainBirmingham$12.7M
- Daniel MatthewsDaphne$190K
- Mark RogersBirmingham$94K
- Amit MomayaBirmingham$77K
- Matthew SmithGuntersville$73K
- Christoper GarrettBirmingham$58K
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.