Kara Arnold, PA
Physician Assistant · Birmingham, ALNPI 1790394443
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 200 payments — averaging $22.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$607
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$484
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$308
- Incyte Corporation$289
- Lilly USA, LLC$270
- plus $1K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,03689%
- Education$49211%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 60 | $1,076 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 23 | $607 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 24 | $484 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 8 | $308 |
| Incyte Corporation | 10 | $289 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 10 | $270 |
| Amgen | 11 | $250 |
| Novartis | 8 | $200 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 6 | $184 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $182 |
| UCB, Inc. | 5 | $119 |
| Sanofi | 5 | $119 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $98 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $56 |
| Elekta, Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Krystal Biotech Inc | 2 | $36 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $36 |
| Organon | 1 | $34 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 1 | $22 |
| Mylan Institutional Inc. | 1 | $18 |
How this compares
$4,528 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 846 physician assistant 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 42 | $3,010 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 61 | $2,594 |
| Ketoconazole | 127 | $2,297 |
| Tacrolimus | 14 | $1,339 |
| Fluorouracil | 21 | $1,268 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 72 | $781 |
| Ciclopirox | 14 | $646 |
| Mupirocin | 27 | $263 |
| Hydrocortisone | 22 | $122 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Birmingham
- Natalie GeorgeBirmingham$540K
- Valerie GoodwinBirmingham$33K
- Mary TemplinBirmingham$19K
- Marena WindleBirmingham$14K
- Carolyn SmallwoodBirmingham$9K
- Emily DillardBirmingham$9K
- Victoria CarterBirmingham$8K
- Amber JacksonBirmingham$7K
- Lauren MillerAnniston$487K
- Brianna BarryEnterprise$29K
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.