Raymond Sheppard, MD
Surgery · Huntsville, ALNPI 1497743066
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 105 payments — averaging $81.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- TELA Bio, Inc.$3K
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Cook Biotech Incorporated$1K
- Davol Inc.$974
- Kerecis Limited$165
- Smith+Nephew$64
- plus $621 from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,09548%
- Food & beverage$4,30850%
- Gifts$1982%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 18 | $2,820 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 29 | $2,776 |
| Cook Biotech Incorporated | 7 | $1,183 |
| Davol Inc. | 9 | $974 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $165 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $64 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $59 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $47 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 3 | $44 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2 | $43 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $39 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 2 | $35 |
| BK Medical Holding Company Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $32 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $29 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $27 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $27 |
| Merck | 1 | $24 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Bioptics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Elucent Medical | 1 | $14 |
| Abbott | 1 | $12 |
| Reshape Lifesciences Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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.
- OviTex 2S$2,461
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,170
- Oasis$1,116
- Phasix Mesh$733
- PHASIX$106
- Ovitex$102
How this compares
$8,602 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 70 | $131 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 53 | $114 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 13 | $22 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Huntsville
- Dennis FernandezHuntsville$266K
- Paul SpeicherHuntsville$16K
- Daniel CoxBirmingham$1.2M
- John PorterfieldBessemer$972K
- Parker HuBirmingham$734K
- Barton WoodAlabaster$702K
- Forrest RingoldMobile$678K
- Adam BeckBirmingham$634K
- Jason BeaverDothan$374K
- Cameron AskewBirmingham$236K
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.