Has Laura Powell received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,706 in general payments to Laura Powell across 181 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Laura Powell did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Laura Powell come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Laura Powell

Primary Care · Tuscaloosa, ALNPI 1043804701

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 181 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 31 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 15.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,141 and has fallen 90.8% since, to $198 in 2025.

$3,706in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 181 payments — averaging $20.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$590
UCB, Inc.$381
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$332
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$249
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC$216
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$196
plus $2K from 25 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$3,706100%

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	37	$590
UCB, Inc.	20	$381
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	13	$332
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	11	$249
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	8	$216
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	10	$196
AstraZeneca	7	$175
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	8	$172
Pfizer	14	$148
Grifols Shared Services North America, Inc.	1	$136
Lundbeck LLC	6	$128
Haemonetics Corporation	2	$118
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	5	$94
Eisai Inc.	4	$88
Acorda Therapeutics, Inc	4	$78
SK Life Science, Inc.	3	$67
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC	4	$59
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	3	$56
Novartis	2	$49
Neurelis, Inc.	3	$49
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	2	$47
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$37
Amgen	2	$37
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$34
Lilly USA, LLC	2	$33
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	1	$29
Akebia Therapeutics Inc	1	$28
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$26
Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$19
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	1	$17
Corium, LLC	1	$16

How this compares

$3,706 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 159 primary care providers in Alabama.

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Other primary care in Tuscaloosa

Brandi TorresTuscaloosa$4K
Lorraine WatkinsTuscaloosa$2K
Rachel JollyTuscaloosa$2K
Keith MatthewsOpelika$20K
Troy HendersonFultondale$18K
April TateDothan$16K
Brandy McGrawMobile$14K
Cleo ValdezHuntsville$14K
Larissa RobinsonJasper$11K
Jamie GhrigsbyMoulton$9K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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