Mark Rogers, MD
Sports Medicine · Birmingham, ALNPI 1992023972
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (53.6%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Linkbio Corp accounts for 85.5% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $36,814 and has fallen 91.7% since, to $3,061 in 2025. Among sports medicine 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.
Across 116 payments — averaging $814.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Linkbio Corp$81K
- Arthrex$8K
- Prime Surgical, LLC$4K
- Smith+Nephew$539
- Zimmer Biomet$489
- Lima USA, Inc.$234
- plus $958 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$50,60054%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,0004%
- Travel & lodging$30,45132%
- Food & beverage$4,0734%
- Education$5,3416%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Linkbio Corp | 35 | $80,789 |
| Arthrex | 18 | $7,707 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 7 | $3,750 |
| Smith+Nephew | 12 | $539 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 11 | $489 |
| Lima USA, Inc. | 3 | $234 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 4 | $175 |
| Conformis, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 1 | $94 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $93 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 1 | $84 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| Abbott | 4 | $63 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $45 |
| Stryker | 1 | $36 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $29 |
| Vertex | 1 | $25 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $15 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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
$94,465 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 108 sports medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lidocaine | 18 | $3,376 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 69 | $1,252 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 141 | $1,188 |
| Methylprednisolone | 71 | $675 |
| Baclofen | 94 | $559 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 21 | $333 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 37 | $237 |
| Methocarbamol | 29 | $182 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 25 | $131 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 26 | $97 |
| Pregabalin | 11 | $88 |
| Gabapentin | 15 | $62 |
| Meloxicam | 26 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Birmingham
- Edward CainBirmingham$12.7M
- Amit MomayaBirmingham$77K
- Christoper GarrettBirmingham$58K
- Reaves CrabtreeBirmingham$47K
- David AdkisonBirmingham$46K
- Amir ShahienBirmingham$45K
- Christopher CarterBirmingham$42K
- Christian MerrillBirmingham$40K
- Thomas EvelyBirmingham$34K
- Aaron JoinerBirmingham$32K
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.