Rhett Murray, MD
Neurological Surgery · Huntsville, ALNPI 1740281880
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,813 of the $3,567 with a category attached, or 78.9%. Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 80.8% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,726 and has fallen 88.9% since, to $191 in 2025.
Across 25 payments — averaging $142.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$3K
- Baxter Healthcare$129
- Precision Spine, Inc.$117
- UCB, Inc.$85
- Si-bone, Inc.$74
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$69
- plus $210 from 8 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $600.00 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.
- Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$4K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,81379%
- Food & beverage$75421%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 6 | $2,883 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $129 |
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $74 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 3 | $69 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $27 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Other - Miscellaneous$2,813
- BioSurgery - GUARD$129
- Vault C$117
How this compares
$3,567 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 97 neurological 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 146 | $1,050 |
| Methylprednisolone | 47 | $459 |
| Methocarbamol | 53 | $441 |
| Gabapentin | 19 | $173 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 12 | $91 |
| Meloxicam | 17 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Huntsville
- John JohnsonHuntsville$250K
- Cheng TaoHuntsville$236K
- Joel PickettHuntsville$72K
- Jason BanksHuntsville$65K
- Sanat DixitHuntsville$5K
- Moneeb EhteshamHuntsville$3K
- Thomas OstergardHuntsville$2K
- Mark HadleyBirmingham$104K
- Andrew ErwoodBirmingham$85K
- Marshall HollandBirmingham$81K
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.