Mukul Mehra
Gastroenterology · Birmingham, ALNPI 1821053455
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $165,890 of the $193,184 with a category attached, or 85.9%. AbbVie accounts for 67.2% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $111,970 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $80 in 2025. Among gastroenterology 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 299 payments — averaging $646.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$130K
- Gilead$57K
- Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$5K
- Johnson & Johnson$279
- Romark Laboratories, LC$251
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$185
- plus $592 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$190%
- Speaking & faculty fees$165,89086%
- Travel & lodging$22,11111%
- Food & beverage$5,1363%
- Education$150%
- Entertainment$130%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 138 | $129,734 |
| Gilead | 73 | $57,372 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 9 | $4,772 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 21 | $279 |
| Romark Laboratories, LC | 8 | $251 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 11 | $185 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $104 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $92 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 4 | $85 |
| Merck | 5 | $70 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 5 | $66 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $34 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $31 |
| Mauna Kea Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Shionogi 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.
How this compares
$193,184 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 225 gastroenterology providers in Alabama.
Other gastroenterology in Birmingham
- Robert ShafferBirmingham$1M
- Meagan GrayBirmingham$113K
- David SteeleBirmingham$47K
- Kirk RussBirmingham$38K
- Kenneth SigmanBirmingham$34K
- Shajan PeterBirmingham$31K
- Ali AhmedBirmingham$27K
- Swaroop VittaBirmingham$15K
- Rajat ParikhBirmingham$14K
- James CallawayBirmingham$13K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.