Robert Walker
Surgery · Decatur, ALNPI 1457318016
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 61 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 24.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $699 and has fallen 96.9% since, to $22 in 2023. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery clinicians in AL, where the typical reported total is $1,812.
Across 61 payments — averaging $31.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$480
- Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$381
- Davol Inc.$197
- Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$128
- Smith+Nephew$123
- Organogenesis Inc.$54
- plus $567 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,930100%
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 | 5 | $480 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 4 | $381 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $197 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 7 | $128 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $123 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $53 |
| CSL Behring | 2 | $52 |
| Acell, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $39 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $37 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $28 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $22 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, 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.
How this compares
$1,930 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 382 surgery providers in Alabama.
Other surgery in Decatur
- Lynn BucknerDecatur$10K
- John PorterfieldBessemer$972K
- Barton WoodAlabaster$702K
- Forrest RingoldMobile$678K
- Dennis FernandezHuntsville$266K
- Cameron AskewBirmingham$236K
- Terry TreadwellMontgomery$127K
- Charles NewmanGadsden$123K
- Jason BeaverDothan$106K
- John TouliatosBirmingham$75K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.