Margaret Hughes
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 179 payments — averaging $32.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$1K
- Novo Nordisk$1K
- Amgen$872
- Bayer$536
- Lilly USA, LLC$450
- AbbVie$314
- plus $1K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,823100%
- Education$70%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 30 | $1,309 |
| Novo Nordisk | 42 | $1,292 |
| Amgen | 16 | $872 |
| Bayer | 25 | $536 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 26 | $450 |
| AbbVie | 13 | $314 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $159 |
| Corium, LLC | 1 | $116 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $115 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Merck | 3 | $86 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $85 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $61 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $15 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $14 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $14 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 1 | $13 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $2 |
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
$5,829 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,415 family 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 58 | $72,092 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 49 | $53,673 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 34 | $40,575 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 26 | $38,763 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec | 28 | $37,027 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 25 | $27,137 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 30 | $26,531 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 17 | $24,320 |
| EliquisApixaban | 11 | $19,144 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 17 | $16,976 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 14 | $12,397 |
| Emgality PenGalcanezumab-Gnlm | 11 | $7,164 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 11 | $7,077 |
| Novolog Mix 70-30 FlexpenInsulin Aspart Prot/Insuln Asp | 19 | $6,270 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 37 | $6,221 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro | $450 | $112,66792 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta | $14 | $65,29456 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $86 | $53,67349 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $1,292 | $27,13725 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess | $314 | $24,32017 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere | $1,309 | $19,47325 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $85 | $19,14411 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 3,415 family providers in Alabama.
Other family in Ozark
- Justin WilsonCullman$1.1M
- Leigh Ann ChildressHuntsville$240K
- Molly ReevesAuburn$158K
- Christina CanteyHuntsville$118K
- Leigh LunaMontgomery$69K
- Christopher LovellMobile$64K
- Justin SimpsonTuscaloosa$43K
- Kellyn McMahonBirmingham$39K
- Ashley StinesTuscaloosa$29K
- Brandy YoungMontgomery$27K
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.