Laverne Hoover
Internal Medicine · Cullman, ALNPI 1922051465
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 217 payments — averaging $15.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$686
- Pfizer$587
- AstraZeneca$307
- AbbVie$263
- Johnson & Johnson$187
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$154
- plus $1K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,279100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 47 | $686 |
| Pfizer | 48 | $587 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $307 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 17 | $263 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 13 | $187 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 10 | $154 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 11 | $137 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 8 | $130 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 8 | $110 |
| CSL Behring | 5 | $93 |
| GSK | 4 | $60 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $53 |
| Novartis | 3 | $48 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 3 | $43 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| Merck | 3 | $40 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 3 | $38 |
| Eisai Inc. | 3 | $35 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 2 | $32 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $13 |
| Circassia Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- FARXIGA$157
- BREZTRI AEROSPHERE$157
How this compares
$3,279 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,533 internal medicine providers in Alabama.
Other internal medicine in Cullman
- Harry StuddardMobile$12.9M
- Almena FreeAnniston$12.7M
- Hayes WilliamsVestavia$10.4M
- David DeatkineBirmingham$8M
- James SullivanBirmingham$6M
- Ramy TomaBirmingham$5.1M
- Barry McLeanHomewood$4M
- William KirbyBirmingham$2.3M
- Saadat AnsariHuntsville$2.1M
- Gregory FlippoTrussville$1.6M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.