Margaret Romine, MD
Transplant Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1518377589
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $4,933 of the $6,573 with a category attached, or 75.1%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 89.6% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,362 and has fallen 52.9% since, to $1,585 in 2025.
Across 40 payments — averaging $164.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$347
- Davol Inc.$147
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$125
- Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$28
- Medtronic$21
- plus $17 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,93375%
- Food & beverage$1,54323%
- Education$971%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 32 | $5,888 |
| Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $347 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $21 |
| Merck | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$5,168
- Envarsus$250
- Phasix Mesh$147
- THYMOGLOBULIN$125
How this compares
Too few transplant surgery providers in Alabamato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 13 | $54 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other transplant surgery in Birmingham
- Jacqueline Garonzik WangBirmingham$18K
- Robert CannonBirmingham$7K
- Sergio Acuna MancillaBirmingham$6K
- Mohammad Raheel N JajjaBirmingham$6K
- Marcos PozoBirmingham$4K
- Evan GuayBirmingham$1K
- Allison DruryBirmingham$108
- Jeremy GoodmanBirmingham$41
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.