Richard Curtin, MD
General Surgery · Anniston, ALNPI 1013989607
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,046 of the $1,346 with a category attached, or 77.7%. It is spread thinly across 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $482 and has fallen 65.8% since, to $165 in 2025.
Across 56 payments — averaging $24.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$233
- Johnson & Johnson$204
- AbbVie$144
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$128
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$101
- Davol Inc.$67
- plus $470 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1159%
- Travel & lodging$18514%
- Food & beverage$1,04678%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 4 | $233 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 12 | $204 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $144 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $128 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 6 | $101 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Merck | 3 | $61 |
| Vertex | 2 | $44 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $35 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 2 | $26 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Gilead | 1 | $22 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Reapplix Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $12 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 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.
How this compares
$1,346 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 28 general 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Famotidine | 14 | $414 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 12 | $69 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 14 | $55 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other general surgery in Anniston
- George CrawfordAnniston$83K
- Dennis ClarkAnniston$970
- Stanley HewlettBirmingham$97K
- William ThompsonBirmingham$13K
- Kayellen WilloughbyBirmingham$4K
- Lee SchmittBirmingham$3K
- Terisa ThomasGadsden$1K
- Xin HuangBirmingham$909
- Andrea GillisBirmingham$552
- Lacey SwensonBirmingham$540
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.