Nathan Ziegenbein
Acute Care · Cullman, ALNPI 1932572625
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 124 payments — averaging $18.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$380
- Pfizer$321
- Novo Nordisk$178
- Harmony Biosciences LLC$168
- GSK$127
- AstraZeneca$106
- plus $977 from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,257100%
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.
How this compares
$2,257 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 30 | $25,985 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 31 | $20,315 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 19 | $17,644 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 16 | $14,707 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 14 | $14,373 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 15 | $14,126 |
| Soliqua 100-33Insulin Glargine/Lixisenatide | 15 | $12,645 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 13 | $10,727 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 18 | $9,435 |
| Ezetimibe | 26 | $1,744 |
| Esomeprazole Magnesium | 16 | $1,711 |
| PaxlovidNirmatrelvir/Ritonavir | 12 | $1,429 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 96 | $1,419 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 40 | $1,308 |
| Losartan Potassium | 109 | $1,293 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro | $75 | $31,77034 claims |
| PfizerEliquis, Paxlovid | $321 | $27,41442 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $127 | $20,31531 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $178 | $14,70716 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $12 | $14,37314 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $106 | $10,72713 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 75th percentile of 711 acute care providers in Alabama.
Other acute care in Cullman
- Cynthia KimbroughCullman$9K
- Charles SmithCullman$9K
- Chelsey KarrCullman$8K
- Paige HarrisMontgomery$465K
- Coretta CollinsBirmingham$77K
- Debra DavisFoley$31K
- Leslie GastonMobile$22K
- Gwendolyn HooperTuscaloosa$16K
- Rachel PrytulaDothan$14K
- Jennifer UmbargerMobile$14K
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.