Paul Nordness, MD
Surgery · Gadsden, ALNPI 1760456941
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (57.1%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Convatec Inc. accounts for 71.2% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $38,749 and has fallen 98.6% since, to $531 in 2025. Among surgery 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 191 payments — averaging $278.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Convatec Inc.$38K
- Intuitive Surgical$7K
- Davol Inc.$4K
- Triad Life Sciences Inc.$2K
- Prime Surgical, LLC$618
- Johnson & Johnson$480
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$30,37557%
- Travel & lodging$12,44823%
- Food & beverage$6,99213%
- Education$3,3166%
- Gifts$400%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Convatec Inc. | 61 | $37,882 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 21 | $6,569 |
| Davol Inc. | 39 | $4,290 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 15 | $1,813 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 3 | $618 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 25 | $480 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 3 | $323 |
| Lumenis BE Inc | 1 | $265 |
| Arthrex | 2 | $252 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $129 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $116 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $113 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $41 |
| THD America, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $20 |
| TEI Biosciences 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.
- InnovaMatrix AC$37,924
- Da Vinci Surgical System$6,163
- Phasix Mesh$3,391
- ESOPHYX$312
- M22$265
- PHASIX$146
- Triple Bundle$116
- AQUACEL AG$109
- Orbactiv$106
How this compares
$53,172 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 382 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 21 | $287 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 55 | $232 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 15 | $81 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $15 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Gadsden
- Charles NewmanGadsden$123K
- John PorterfieldBessemer$972K
- Barton WoodAlabaster$702K
- Forrest RingoldMobile$678K
- Dennis FernandezHuntsville$266K
- Cameron AskewBirmingham$236K
- Terry TreadwellMontgomery$127K
- Jason BeaverDothan$106K
- John TouliatosBirmingham$75K
- Jayme LockeBirmingham$63K
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.