Marla Couture
Acute Care · Birmingham, ALNPI 1699775403
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 66 payments — averaging $16.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lilly USA, LLC$248
- AbbVie$169
- Bayer$168
- Pfizer$128
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$101
- Novo Nordisk$74
- plus $225 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,113100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLC | 16 | $248 |
| AbbVie | 12 | $169 |
| Bayer | 8 | $168 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $128 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $101 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $74 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $41 |
| Merck | 2 | $33 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $31 |
| Biogen | 1 | $27 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $15 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$1,113 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 711 acute care 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 59 | $1,395 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 50 | $656 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 50 | $622 |
| Cefdinir | 33 | $621 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 16 | $372 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 26 | $191 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 12 | $181 |
| Methylprednisolone | 18 | $152 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 26 | $128 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 31 | $86 |
| Azithromycin | 14 | $85 |
| Hydrochlorothiazide | 11 | $60 |
| Fluconazole | 13 | $59 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 39 | $49 |
| Lisinopril | 13 | $20 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Alexandra GlennBirmingham$11K
- Bridget CrainBirmingham$10K
- Rachel CookBirmingham$10K
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.