Matthew Cepeda
Pediatrics · Mobile, ALNPI 1841356862
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 82 payments — averaging $23.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Corium, LLC$491
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$354
- Sanofi$188
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$156
- Comsort, Inc$150
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$92
- plus $468 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1508%
- Food & beverage$1,74992%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Corium, LLC | 32 | $491 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $354 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $188 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 9 | $156 |
| Comsort, Inc | 1 | $150 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $92 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $91 |
| Merck | 5 | $75 |
| GSK | 3 | $42 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 2 | $30 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $29 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 2 | $29 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $26 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Cipher Pharmaceuticals US LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $13 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 1 | $12 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$1,899 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 908 pediatrics providers in Alabama.
Other pediatrics in Mobile
- Ibrahim AhmedMobile$193K
- James WileyMobile$44K
- Katherine SavellsMobile$24K
- Hilary SeayMobile$5K
- Catherine HuettemannMobile$3K
- Richard HuettemannMobile$3K
- Windham TinnellMobile$3K
- Suresh BoppanaBirmingham$2.5M
- William JohnstonBirmingham$2M
- Max HaleBirmingham$1.3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.