Sidney Brevard
Trauma Surgery · Mobile, ALNPI 1487675740
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (58.6%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC accounts for 62.8% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $2,594 and has fallen 99.2% since, to $20 in 2023. That places this record below the midpoint for trauma surgery clinicians in AL, where the typical reported total is $3,837.
Across 56 payments — averaging $68.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$465
- Baxter Healthcare$184
- Kerecis Limited$141
- Smith+Nephew$128
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$62
- plus $448 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$301%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,25059%
- Travel & lodging$160%
- Food & beverage$1,54140%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 4 | $2,410 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 19 | $465 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 6 | $184 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $141 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $128 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $62 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 1 | $61 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 3 | $47 |
| Merck | 3 | $46 |
| Medela LLC | 2 | $38 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Medline Industries LP | 2 | $28 |
| Acell, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $26 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $18 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $18 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 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.
How this compares
$3,837 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 26 trauma surgery providers in Alabama.
Other trauma surgery in Mobile
- Charles ButtsMobile$13K
- Maryann MbakaMobile$11K
- Christopher KinnardMobile$7K
- Scott BlairMobile$972
- Nathan PoliteMobile$903
- William BarberMobile$246
- John VermillionMontgomery$87K
- John HolcombBirmingham$45K
- Jan JansenBirmingham$18K
- James HwangBirmingham$13K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.