Terri Ginther
Acute Care · Huntsville, ALNPI 1447436175
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 209 payments — averaging $22.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vifor Pharma, Inc.$666
- Bayer$497
- Novartis$485
- Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$482
- AstraZeneca$435
- Amgen$357
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,617100%
- Education$160%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 32 | $666 |
| Bayer | 20 | $497 |
| Novartis | 18 | $485 |
| Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. | 19 | $482 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 23 | $435 |
| Amgen | 14 | $357 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 19 | $345 |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 20 | $303 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 8 | $269 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 9 | $185 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 6 | $157 |
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 4 | $106 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $69 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| GSK | 1 | $33 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $32 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Cycle Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Parsabiv$124
- TARPEYO$122
- XPHOZAH 30 MG$118
How this compares
$4,633 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 711 acute care providers in Alabama.
Other acute care in Huntsville
- April KlarHuntsville$13K
- Stephanie TateHuntsville$13K
- Kelly VazquezHuntsville$12K
- Summer SlaterHuntsville$12K
- Tiffany RentzHuntsville$11K
- Britanie MooreHuntsville$9K
- Trey WilsonHuntsville$8K
- Esther HambrickHuntsville$8K
- Jessica BurkeenHuntsville$8K
- Alyssa EzellHuntsville$8K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.