Thomas Atkinson, MD
Allergy & Immunology · Birmingham, ALNPI 1508853631
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $40,697 of the $52,802 with a category attached, or 77.1%. It is spread thinly across 16 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.0%.
Across 59 payments — averaging $894.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pharming Healthcare, Inc.$11K
- GSK$10K
- AstraZeneca$8K
- Regeneron$8K
- Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc.$6K
- CSL Behring$5K
- plus $5K from 10 others
Across 75 payments — averaging $1361.87 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Shire North American Group Inc$54K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$48K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$40,69777%
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,18015%
- Travel & lodging$2,5785%
- Food & beverage$1,3473%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 15 | $11,079 |
| GSK | 9 | $9,727 |
| AstraZeneca | 14 | $8,485 |
| Regeneron | 4 | $8,006 |
| Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $6,097 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $4,690 |
| Amgen | 2 | $4,180 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $116 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $97 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $92 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $88 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $65 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $31 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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
$52,802 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 30 allergy & immunology 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.
Other allergy & immunology in Birmingham
- Njeri MainaBirmingham$44K
- Michael PolcariBirmingham$39K
- Carol SmithBirmingham$11K
- Tracy HwangpoBirmingham$5K
- Amy CajacobBirmingham$4K
- William MasseyBirmingham$3K
- Elizabeth GeorgeBirmingham$3K
- Kathleen GrisantiBirmingham$1K
- Miranda CurtissBirmingham$811
- John AndersonHomewood$789K
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.