Remona Peterson, MD
Family Medicine · Tuscaloosa, ALNPI 1386056026
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 609 payments — averaging $16.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$2K
- AbbVie$1K
- AstraZeneca$1K
- Novo Nordisk$1K
- Lilly USA, LLC$907
- GSK$429
- plus $3K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$10,27899%
- Education$601%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 146 | $2,304 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 98 | $1,498 |
| AstraZeneca | 73 | $1,387 |
| Novo Nordisk | 66 | $1,054 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 63 | $907 |
| GSK | 16 | $429 |
| Pfizer | 22 | $336 |
| Abbott | 26 | $321 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 13 | $312 |
| Amgen | 13 | $305 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 11 | $223 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 8 | $162 |
| Bayer | 6 | $133 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 6 | $118 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $100 |
| Exact Sciences | 5 | $97 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $86 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $81 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $44 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 2 | $44 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Merck | 2 | $40 |
| Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 2 | $38 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $35 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Tonix Medicines, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 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.
- REXULTI$125
- ABILIFY MAINTENA$101
How this compares
$10,338 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,680 family medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 286 | $419,424 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 238 | $384,091 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 161 | $187,474 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 175 | $179,082 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 113 | $173,532 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 139 | $129,029 |
| EliquisApixaban | 86 | $124,710 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 102 | $99,861 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 28 | $67,576 |
| RexultiBrexpiprazole | 32 | $48,084 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec | 57 | $45,959 |
| VraylarCariprazine Hcl | 33 | $45,365 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 32 | $44,715 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 27 | $41,374 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 28 | $39,947 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity | $907 | $606,898447 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus | $1,054 | $451,668266 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere | $1,387 | $210,900214 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Combivent Respimat | $44 | $178,552124 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess, Vraylar, Qulipta | $1,498 | $166,225152 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta | $429 | $147,632178 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $336 | $124,71086 claims |
| MerckJanuvia, Janumet | $40 | $60,33242 claims |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.Rexulti | $2,304 | $48,08432 claims |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa | $162 | $21,64119 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $312 | $18,77429 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 1,680 family medicine providers in Alabama.
Other family medicine in Tuscaloosa
- Kelly HunterTuscaloosa$84K
- Ross SummerfordTuscaloosa$18K
- Craig BuettnerTuscaloosa$17K
- Michael VaughnBirmingham$9.9M
- William NixonGuntersville$7.1M
- Randall QuinnCullman$5.4M
- Matthew CaldwellAthens$4.1M
- Michael CarterHuntsville$3.4M
- Howard RubensteinSaraland$3.3M
- Randle MiddletonHuntsville$3.3M
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.