Katherine Pierson
Acute Care · Huntsville, ALNPI 1689934291
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 192 payments — averaging $20.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bayer$715
- Vifor Pharma, Inc.$539
- OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$491
- Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$431
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$364
- Amgen$290
- plus $1K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,992100%
- Education$90%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bayer | 25 | $715 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 27 | $539 |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 47 | $491 |
| Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. | 17 | $431 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 20 | $364 |
| Amgen | 10 | $290 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 6 | $219 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $191 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 10 | $188 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 6 | $146 |
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 5 | $131 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $71 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $60 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Kerendia$125
- Parsabiv$124
- TARPEYO$122
- MOUNJARO$118
- XPHOZAH 30 MG$118
How this compares
$4,001 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 711 acute care 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.
Other acute care in Huntsville
- April KlarHuntsville$13K
- Stephanie TateHuntsville$13K
- Kelly VazquezHuntsville$12K
- Summer SlaterHuntsville$12K
- Tiffany RentzHuntsville$11K
- Britanie MooreHuntsville$9K
- Trey WilsonHuntsville$8K
- Esther HambrickHuntsville$8K
- Jessica BurkeenHuntsville$8K
- Alyssa EzellHuntsville$8K
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.