Norman Waldrop, MD
Foot and Ankle Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1184755621
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 373 payments — averaging $9618.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$3.4M
- Johnson & Johnson$124K
- Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC$73K
- Linvatec Corporation$18K
- In2bones USA, LLC$10K
- Prime Surgical, LLC$6K
- plus $3K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$3,296,97093%
- Consulting fees$93,8003%
- Speaking & faculty fees$129,4754%
- Grants$5,0000%
- Travel & lodging$23,1151%
- Food & beverage$7,9930%
- Education$1,2000%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 245 | $3,353,764 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 26 | $123,995 |
| Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC | 19 | $73,131 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 9 | $18,379 |
| In2bones USA, LLC | 4 | $10,095 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 16 | $5,549 |
| Stryker | 28 | $945 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $575 |
| Orthalign Inc | 2 | $185 |
| TYBR Health, Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $139 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Pylant Medical | 1 | $120 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $107 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $82 |
| Convatec Inc. | 4 | $65 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- ARTHREX$12,940,519
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS SOFT TISSUE ANCHORS$372,965
- SHOULDER IMPLANTS BICEPS REPAIR FIBERTAK$303,356
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES INSTRUMENTS DEVICE SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTS MIDFOOT INSTRUMENT$265,642
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES INSTRUMENTS DISPOSABLE KITS FIBERTAK$265,642
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS HINDFOOT & ANKLE SYNDESMOSIS TIGHTROPES$196,833
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES INSTRUMENTS TRAUMA MIDFOOT TRAUMA$106,523
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS TRAUMA SYNDESMOSIS TIGHTROPES$106,523
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES INSTRUMENTS SOFT TISSUE DISPOSABLE KITS$106,523
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS HINDFOOT & ANKLE SYNDESMOSIS TIGHTROPE$68,809
- MOTOBAND$58,102
- Medical Implant$27,739
- CoLink$10,095
- COLINK PLATING SYSTEM$6,353
- COLINK NEOFUSE$5,000
- COLINK 2$5,000
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS ANCHORS BROSTROM$4,600
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS SOFT TISSUE FIBERTAK$2,400
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS TIGHTROPE SYNDESMOSIS TIGHTROPES$1,800
- IBS$1,138
How this compares
$3,587,614 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 40 foot and ankle surgery 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 | 13 | $7,199 |
| Celecoxib | 17 | $741 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 104 | $596 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 39 | $426 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 30 | $401 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 27 | $142 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 49 | $100 |
| Gabapentin | 13 | $83 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot and ankle surgery in Birmingham
- Ashish ShahBirmingham$28K
- Swapnil SinghBirmingham$14K
- Adam LukasiewiczBirmingham$10K
- Mary GilmerBirmingham$8K
- Danalynn GuasteferroBirmingham$5K
- Kenneth UngerBirmingham$4K
- Francisco CaycedoBirmingham$3K
- Ronald AgeeBirmingham$2K
- Justin DaigreDecatur$437K
- John KirchnerHoover$84K
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.