Has Robert Bentley, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,308 in general payments to Robert Bentley, MD across 735 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Robert Bentley, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Robert Bentley, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Robert Bentley, MD

Dermatology · Tuscaloosa, ALNPI 1548201544

Payments from drug & device makers

$12,308in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 735 payments — averaging $16.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$2K
Novartis$2K
Johnson & Johnson$2K
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$1K
Sanofi$1K
UCB, Inc.$726
plus $4K from 24 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$11,68595%
Education$6235%

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
AbbVie(2 entities)	167	$1,899
Novartis	106	$1,783
Johnson & Johnson	83	$1,726
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	45	$1,034
Sanofi	38	$1,014
UCB, Inc.	27	$726
Pfizer	49	$587
Amgen	22	$420
Incyte Corporation	28	$389
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	37	$383
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	18	$355
Lilly USA, LLC	19	$339
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	22	$275
Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc.	14	$272
Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC	11	$246
LEO Pharma Inc.	11	$203
Dermavant Sciences, Inc.	8	$127
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	2	$104
EPI Health, LLC	6	$89
Organon	5	$67
Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	3	$53
Prugen, Inc. Pharmaceuticals	2	$37
Bristol Myers Squibb	2	$33
Almirall LLC	2	$32
Aclaris Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$32
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	1	$20
Strata Skin Sciences, Inc.	2	$19
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	1	$16
VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$14
DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	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.

DUPIXENT$104

How this compares

$12,308 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 168 dermatology providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$927,142

Medicare patients

1,034

Services billed

10,394

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
Betamethasone Dipropionate	70	$2,951
Fluocinolone AcetonideFluocinolone/Shower Cap	40	$2,711
Clobetasol Propionate	36	$2,265
Doxycycline Hyclate	118	$2,244
Triamcinolone Acetonide	122	$2,238
Fluorouracil	12	$1,208
Hydrocortisone	52	$1,042
Metronidazole	17	$883
Ketoconazole	43	$854
Nystatin-TriamcinoloneNystatin/Triamcinolone Acet	21	$817
Minoxidil	44	$583
Clindamycin Phosphate	12	$529
Minocycline Hcl	25	$476
Prednisone	102	$462
Terbinafine Hcl	47	$384

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other dermatology in Tuscaloosa

Vlada GroysmanHoover$7.2M
Boni ElewskiBirmingham$5.5M
James KrellBirmingham$4M
John VanloockMobile$1.4M
Tiffany MayoBirmingham$1.4M
Melanie AppellBirmingham$983K
Julie HarperBirmingham$920K
Eric BaumGadsden$896K
Corey HartmanBirmingham$744K
Porcia LoveMontgomery$587K

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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.

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