Peter Pons, MD
Vascular Surgery · Florence, ALNPI 1205814019
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $45,280 of the $53,888 with a category attached, or 84.0%. Cook Incorporated accounts for 93.8% of it on its own, with 26 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $15,066 and has fallen 54.3% since, to $6,883 in 2025. Among vascular 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 145 payments — averaging $371.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cook Incorporated$51K
- Cook Medical LLC$619
- Endologix LLC$449
- Abiomed$361
- Penumbra, Inc.$335
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$325
- plus $1K from 21 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $6904.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Endologix LLC$21K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,28010%
- Speaking & faculty fees$45,28084%
- Food & beverage$3,3286%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cook Incorporated | 30 | $50,560 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 36 | $619 |
| Endologix LLC | 9 | $449 |
| Abiomed | 6 | $361 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 6 | $335 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 15 | $325 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 9 | $282 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $164 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 3 | $113 |
| Stryker | 4 | $113 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 3 | $68 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $65 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $60 |
| Reflow Medical Inc | 3 | $51 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $44 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Thrombolex, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| BD | 1 | $22 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $22 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $16 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Cook Medical AAA$16,966
- Zenith Spiral-Z$8,860
- Cook Medical Zenith$7,500
- Zenith$6,620
- Zenith Alpha$6,120
- Cook Medical AFEN$3,100
- Cook Medical Thoracic$1,500
- Impella$149
- Indigo System$145
- ARTEGRAFT VASCULAR GRAFT$136
How this compares
$53,888 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 61 vascular 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 112 | $62,066 |
| EliquisApixaban | 80 | $51,818 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 311 | $1,965 |
| Prasugrel Hcl | 45 | $1,341 |
| Cilostazol | 39 | $1,013 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 28 | $246 |
| Warfarin Sodium | 11 | $99 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Florence
- Brian FletcherFlorence$4K
- Albert PacificoBirmingham$5.1M
- Andrew KnottHuntsville$76K
- Brian SellersMontgomery$71K
- Benjamin PearceBirmingham$37K
- William HolmanBirmingham$25K
- Keenan WanamakerMontgomery$23K
- Marco CioppiHuntsville$21K
- Mina JacobMobile$19K
- Stephen HeinzmanBirmingham$18K
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.