RxDoctor Payments Data

Mark Hadley

Neurological Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1194761403

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $82,090 of the $104,152 with a category attached, or 78.8%. NICO Corporation accounts for 71.3% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $48,672 and has fallen 71.7% since, to $13,782 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in AL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$104,152in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $3359.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • NICO Corporation$74K
  • Curiteva, Inc.$29K
  • Stryker$170
  • Cerapedics Inc.$100
  • Johnson & Johnson$69
  • Globus Medical$53
  • plus $147 from 4 others
$42,783in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $14,261 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • NICO Corporation$43K

What the payments were for

  • Royalty or licence$20,18519%
  • Consulting fees$82,09079%
  • Travel & lodging$8551%
  • Food & beverage$1,0221%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
NICO Corporation13$74,254
Curiteva, Inc.6$29,359
Stryker2$170
Cerapedics Inc.1$100
Johnson & Johnson3$69
Globus Medical2$53
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.1$52
Medtronic1$39
Olympus America Inc.1$36
Zap Surgical Systems, Inc.1$20

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

$104,152 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 97 neurological surgery providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$31,437
Medicare patients
136
Services billed
282

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Oxycodone Hcl21$558
Gabapentin25$260

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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