Stephen Heinzman, MD
Vascular Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1497863088
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $11,000 of the $17,703 with a category attached, or 62.1%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 84.1% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $11,899 and has fallen 98.9% since, to $128 in 2025.
Across 71 payments — averaging $249.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$15K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$1K
- Endologix LLC$266
- Johnson & Johnson$44
- Medtronic$39
- plus $140 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,55720%
- Food & beverage$3,12918%
- Education$11,00062%
- Gifts$160%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 41 | $14,890 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 6 | $1,242 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 12 | $1,083 |
| Endologix LLC | 3 | $266 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $44 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $39 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $34 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$13,533
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$1,183
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$1,047
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$886
- DA VINCI SP$726
- ENROUTE .014 Guidewire$482
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$482
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$161
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$106
How this compares
$17,703 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 61 vascular 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 118 | $396 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 28 | $317 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 44 | $137 |
| Cephalexin | 18 | $129 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Birmingham
- Albert PacificoBirmingham$5.1M
- Benjamin PearceBirmingham$37K
- William HolmanBirmingham$25K
- Jarrad RowseBirmingham$10K
- Graeme McFarlandBirmingham$10K
- Vernon HorstBirmingham$9K
- James KirklinBirmingham$6K
- Danielle SutzkoBirmingham$5K
- Mark PattersonBirmingham$5K
- Michael GleasonBirmingham$3K
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.