Priya Patel
Surgical · Birmingham, ALNPI 1306354451
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 137 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 17 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,509, 10.0 times the $151 reported in 2021.
Across 137 payments — averaging $20.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alkermes, Inc.$614
- AbbVie$432
- Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$417
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$349
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$238
- Johnson & Johnson$192
- plus $528 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,770100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alkermes, Inc. | 30 | $614 |
| AbbVie | 16 | $432 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 8 | $417 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 18 | $349 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 14 | $238 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 17 | $192 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $118 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 5 | $103 |
| Corium, LLC | 14 | $80 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $63 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $55 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 2 | $27 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 1 | $19 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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
$2,770 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 162 surgical providers in Alabama.
Other surgical in Birmingham
- Heather ForsonBirmingham$8K
- Suzanne Powe VickersBirmingham$8K
- Samuel MurphreeBirmingham$6K
- Kelsey KoesterBirmingham$4K
- Timothy TreloarBirmingham$4K
- Ronald PhilleyBirmingham$3K
- Allison SeamonBirmingham$3K
- David StootsBirmingham$3K
- Jody St ClairBirmingham$3K
- Amy SchalkBirmingham$2K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.