Nidal Yunis
Cardiovascular Disease · Dothan, ALNPI 1952360406
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 67 payments — averaging $17.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$190
- Medtronic$156
- Novartis$116
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$114
- Philips North America LLC$104
- Pfizer$86
- plus $414 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,15898%
- Education$222%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 14 | $190 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $156 |
| Novartis | 8 | $116 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 7 | $114 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $104 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $86 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 4 | $65 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $58 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $54 |
| Bayer | 2 | $36 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $33 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $18 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $16 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $15 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Vital Connect, Inc | 1 | $11 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, 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
$1,179 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th 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).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.