Russell Hudgens, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Mobile, ALNPI 1417957754
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 82 payments — averaging $18.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Radius Health, Inc.$401
- Amgen$187
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$170
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$153
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$104
- Zimvie Inc.$70
- plus $431 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$181%
- Food & beverage$1,49899%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Radius Health, Inc. | 18 | $401 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 13 | $187 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $170 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 9 | $153 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $104 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 3 | $70 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $60 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $53 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 2 | $45 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 3 | $35 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $34 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $23 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $21 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $16 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$1,516 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 319 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 904 | $12,687 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 237 | $3,741 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 289 | $3,723 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 272 | $1,346 |
| Gabapentin | 201 | $1,305 |
| Celecoxib | 87 | $1,283 |
| Ibuprofen | 93 | $1,193 |
| Meloxicam | 263 | $832 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 155 | $824 |
| Etodolac | 32 | $709 |
| Cefadroxil | 76 | $502 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 129 | $491 |
| Cephalexin | 24 | $248 |
| Naproxen | 20 | $213 |
| Methylprednisolone | 24 | $208 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Mobile
- Matthew BarberMobile$190K
- Joseph ZarzourMobile$68K
- Russell GoodeMobile$50K
- Michael GranberryMobile$42K
- Jess MullensMobile$33K
- Clinton HowardMobile$24K
- Blake BowdenMobile$22K
- Jeffrey DugasBirmingham$11.7M
- Benton EmblomBirmingham$3.1M
- James SmithGadsden$2.7M
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.