Joshua Cockrell, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Birmingham, ALNPI 1104037027
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,167 of the $8,260 with a category attached, or 74.7%. It is spread thinly across 38 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.0%.
Across 215 payments — averaging $38.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Endologix LLC$2K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$2K
- Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$954
- Novartis$545
- Medtronic$443
- Boehringer Ingelheim$348
- plus $2K from 32 others
Across 28 payments — averaging $3019.41 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Veryan Medical Incorporated$58K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$27K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,09325%
- Food & beverage$6,16775%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Endologix LLC | 6 | $1,816 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 9 | $1,718 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 9 | $954 |
| Novartis | 41 | $545 |
| Medtronic | 18 | $443 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 21 | $348 |
| Abbott | 5 | $236 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 13 | $199 |
| Merck | 10 | $182 |
| Pfizer | 11 | $178 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $157 |
| Amgen | 10 | $154 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 8 | $140 |
| AstraZeneca | 10 | $140 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $106 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $84 |
| Reflow Medical Inc | 5 | $80 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $74 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $61 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $45 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 2 | $39 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $38 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $38 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $36 |
| Veryan Medical Incorporated | 1 | $36 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $27 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Bayer | 1 | $20 |
| Stryker | 1 | $18 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$8,260 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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 | 459 | $366,366 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 163 | $128,912 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 102 | $114,049 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 88 | $70,700 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 52 | $62,098 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 71 | $47,535 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 57 | $40,627 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 53 | $33,605 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 40 | $26,202 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 34 | $21,932 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 495 | $6,365 |
| Icosapent Ethyl | 22 | $5,903 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 200 | $5,157 |
| NexletolBempedoic Acid | 11 | $4,369 |
| Valsartan-HydrochlorothiazideValsartan/Hydrochlorothiazide | 95 | $4,251 |
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 | $178 | $366,366459 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $348 | $128,912163 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta | $140 | $81,140124 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $199 | $70,70088 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $74 | $62,09852 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $545 | $40,62757 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 60th percentile of 109 interventional cardiology providers in Alabama.
Other interventional cardiology in Birmingham
- Gary RoubinBirmingham$157K
- Robert FosterBirmingham$90K
- Hasan GuvenBirmingham$86K
- Abdullah MahmoodBirmingham$61K
- Ali EbrahimiBirmingham$55K
- Jacob TownsendBirmingham$52K
- Kamran AliBirmingham$47K
- Mouhamed SabouniBirmingham$44K
- David SchultzBirmingham$19K
- Tushar MishraBirmingham$17K
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.