Samantha Lawson, DO
Family Medicine · Smiths Station, ALNPI 1316592439
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 100 payments — averaging $15.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$405
- Pfizer$209
- AstraZeneca$180
- Novo Nordisk$146
- Lilly USA, LLC$100
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$82
- plus $452 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,573100%
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 | 30 | $405 |
| Pfizer | 14 | $209 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 10 | $180 |
| Novo Nordisk | 9 | $146 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 7 | $100 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 4 | $82 |
| Amgen | 4 | $69 |
| GSK | 4 | $67 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 4 | $57 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 3 | $51 |
| Myriad Women's Health, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $40 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $31 |
| Novartis | 1 | $19 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $17 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$1,573 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,680 family medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 72 | $100,697 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 47 | $81,363 |
| EliquisApixaban | 69 | $73,173 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 52 | $68,844 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 43 | $48,880 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 28 | $17,299 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 23 | $16,989 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 16 | $15,081 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 23 | $8,510 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 18 | $6,389 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 13 | $6,224 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 47 | $5,734 |
| Humalog Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro | 21 | $4,892 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 104 | $3,104 |
| Novolog FlexpenInsulin Aspart | 14 | $2,658 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $146 | $100,69772 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity | $100 | $83,92568 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $17 | $81,36347 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $209 | $73,17369 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta | $67 | $55,10356 claims |
| AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Symbicort | $180 | $25,80951 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid | $405 | $18,51946 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 60th percentile of 1,680 family medicine providers in Alabama.
Other family medicine in Smiths Station
- Michael VaughnBirmingham$9.9M
- William NixonGuntersville$7.1M
- Randall QuinnCullman$5.4M
- Matthew CaldwellAthens$4.1M
- Michael CarterHuntsville$3.4M
- Howard RubensteinSaraland$3.3M
- Randle MiddletonHuntsville$3.3M
- Aaron KarrSheffield$3.1M
- Nidal MorrarFoley$3M
- Timothy HowardHuntsville$3M
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.