Keith Cummings, MD
Hospitalist · Huntsville, ALNPI 1669760286
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,305 of the $1,455 with a category attached, or 89.7%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 52.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $473 and has fallen 89.6% since, to $49 in 2025.
Across 27 payments — averaging $53.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$765
- Merck$245
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$150
- Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc.$73
- Novartis$47
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$41
- plus $134 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$15010%
- Food & beverage$1,30590%
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(2 entities) | 11 | $765 |
| Merck | 2 | $245 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $73 |
| Novartis | 1 | $47 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $41 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $35 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $29 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $15 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $15 |
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
$1,455 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 265 hospitalist 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 hospitalist in Huntsville
- Daniel FoxHuntsville$2K
- Bhavini KarHuntsville$2K
- Yi JiaHuntsville$2K
- Sudheer KantharajpurHuntsville$2K
- Pavankumar PanchavatiHuntsville$2K
- Rinkesh PatelHuntsville$2K
- Naveen Kumar TanguturHuntsville$2K
- Bala NimmanaHuntsville$2K
- Hicham AzzouziHuntsville$2K
- Jaime Daza FawcettHuntsville$1K
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.