Michael Pinson, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Dothan, ALNPI 1760476212
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 318 payments — averaging $18.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$792
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$626
- Merck$618
- Novartis$525
- Boston Scientific$484
- Medtronic$484
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2635%
- Food & beverage$5,45895%
- Education$301%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 47 | $792 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 44 | $626 |
| Merck | 39 | $618 |
| Novartis | 32 | $525 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $484 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 22 | $484 |
| Pfizer | 30 | $457 |
| AstraZeneca | 14 | $263 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 14 | $235 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 15 | $229 |
| Amgen | 10 | $139 |
| Philips North America LLC | 7 | $127 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 6 | $97 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 5 | $89 |
| Abbott | 4 | $89 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 4 | $87 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 5 | $77 |
| Braemar Manufacturing, LLC | 1 | $65 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $21 |
| Gilead | 1 | $14 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$253
- CAMZYOS$127
- SYMPLICITY G3$101
How this compares
$5,750 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 292 cardiovascular disease 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 608 | $613,065 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 132 | $129,375 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 79 | $65,935 |
| VerquvoVericiguat | 25 | $22,612 |
| MultaqDronedarone Hcl | 25 | $22,032 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 156 | $19,593 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 26 | $13,158 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 187 | $8,049 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 14 | $7,469 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 268 | $6,095 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 353 | $6,050 |
| Midodrine Hcl | 47 | $5,189 |
| Mexiletine Hcl | 33 | $4,293 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 107 | $3,082 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 384 | $3,031 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $457 | $613,065608 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $229 | $129,375132 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $525 | $65,93579 claims |
| MerckVerquvo | $618 | $22,61225 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq | $40 | $22,03225 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta | $263 | $13,15826 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 60th percentile of 292 cardiovascular disease providers in Alabama.
Other cardiovascular disease in Dothan
- Andreas MuenchDothan$2M
- Anjula ChibDothan$27K
- Mustafa AhmedBirmingham$2.5M
- Brian FoleyAlexander City$2.5M
- Alain BouchardBirmingham$1.9M
- William DavisAuburn$1.7M
- Walter HaughtHuntsville$1.6M
- Christopher BrownMobile$1.4M
- Shi-Chi ChengHuntsville$1.2M
- Mahomed SalameAnniston$1.2M
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.