Rondi Gelbard
Trauma Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1558520106
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (42.5%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimmer Biomet at 37.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,094 and has fallen 96.0% since, to $43 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for trauma surgery clinicians in AL, where the typical reported total is $3,837.
Across 21 payments — averaging $88.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$700
- KCI USA, Inc.$650
- Prytime Medical Devices, Inc.$146
- Z-medica, LLC$139
- Johnson & Johnson$61
- Biomerieux Inc$48
- plus $115 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$78942%
- Travel & lodging$46425%
- Food & beverage$60533%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 9 | $700 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $650 |
| Prytime Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 1 | $139 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $61 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 2 | $48 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $37 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- PREVENA$650
- AdvantageRib$355
- ER-REBOA$146
- QuikClot$139
- Control+$139
How this compares
$1,858 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 26 trauma 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.
Other trauma surgery in Birmingham
- John HolcombBirmingham$45K
- Jan JansenBirmingham$18K
- James HwangBirmingham$13K
- William HewgleyBirmingham$10K
- Jonathan BlackBirmingham$4K
- Ryan WanBirmingham$4K
- Samantha BakerBirmingham$2K
- Shannon CarrollBirmingham$94
- Mohammad HashmiBirmingham$20
- John VermillionMontgomery$87K
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.