RxDoctor Payments Data

Matthew Reed, MD

Surgery · Bessemer, ALNPI 1225219264

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $11,285 of the $17,301 with a category attached, or 65.2%. 48 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 36.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,692 and has fallen 57.1% since, to $2,870 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in AL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$17,301in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 295 payments — averaging $58.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intuitive Surgical$6K
  • AbbVie$3K
  • Integra Lifesciences Corporation$2K
  • Davol Inc.$693
  • Smith+Nephew$490
  • Johnson & Johnson$454
  • plus $4K from 42 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$5163%
  • Food & beverage$11,28565%
  • Education$5,50032%

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

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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.

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

$17,301 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 382 surgery providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$47,895
Medicare patients
93
Services billed
322

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-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen74$326
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen39$248
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron29$205
Doxycycline Monohydrate11$181
Doxycycline Hyclate16$148
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav12$133
Ciprofloxacin Hcl13$125
Sodium Chloride0.9 % Sodium Chloride18$89

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other surgery in Bessemer

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Where these figures come from

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