Rodney Alford
Internal Medicine · Kankakee, ILNPI 1427128909
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 89 payments — averaging $33.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Corcept Therapeutics$730
- Novo Nordisk$404
- GSK$396
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$281
- Boehringer Ingelheim$257
- Johnson & Johnson$203
- plus $718 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$73024%
- Food & beverage$2,26176%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $730 |
| Novo Nordisk | 19 | $404 |
| GSK | 5 | $396 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 12 | $281 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 10 | $257 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $203 |
| AbbVie | 9 | $172 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 10 | $147 |
| Novartis | 2 | $105 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $97 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 1 | $90 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $14 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$2,991 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 5,182 internal medicine providers in Illinois.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 12 | $269 |
| Meloxicam | 12 | $48 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Kankakee
- Dennis LevinsonChicago$25.3M
- Mary BrownRockford$16M
- Andrew BartlettChampaign$4.1M
- Danny SugimotoChicago$4M
- Peter O DonnellChicago$3.9M
- Daniel CatenacciChicago$3.5M
- Jeffrey GeohasEvanston$2.3M
- Patricia WalshChicago$2.1M
- Merle DiamondChicago$1.7M
- Yoko MomoyamaLombard$1.6M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.