Lora Pound
Family Medicine · Birmingham, ALNPI 1154421709
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 190 payments — averaging $16.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$566
- AstraZeneca$513
- Novo Nordisk$294
- Amgen$289
- Pfizer$266
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$255
- plus $1K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,09497%
- Education$1033%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 32 | $566 |
| AstraZeneca | 30 | $513 |
| Novo Nordisk | 21 | $294 |
| Amgen | 6 | $289 |
| Pfizer | 22 | $266 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 19 | $255 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 12 | $204 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 9 | $198 |
| Merck | 6 | $92 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $79 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $76 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $61 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $55 |
| GSK | 3 | $40 |
| Abbott | 2 | $39 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $23 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $12 |
| Novartis | 1 | $11 |
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.
- BREZTRI AEROSPHERE$128
- XARELTO$125
- Prolia$122
- EVENITY$113
How this compares
$3,197 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,680 family medicine providers in Alabama.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Metformin Hcl | 12 | $74 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Birmingham
- Michael VaughnBirmingham$9.9M
- Song YuBirmingham$1.7M
- Nova LawBirmingham$649K
- Lashelle BarmoreBirmingham$486K
- Scott WeisbergBirmingham$38K
- William NixonGuntersville$7.1M
- Randall QuinnCullman$5.4M
- Matthew CaldwellAthens$4.1M
- Michael CarterHuntsville$3.4M
- Howard RubensteinSaraland$3.3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.