Tracy Luckhardt
Critical Care Medicine · Birmingham, ALNPI 1053431338
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (49.1%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Boehringer Ingelheim accounts for 86.4% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $9,268 and has fallen 98.8% since, to $110 in 2024. Among critical care medicine clinicians in AL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 57 payments — averaging $498.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boehringer Ingelheim$25K
- Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$2K
- CSL Behring$2K
- Genentech USA, Inc.$176
- United Therapeutics Corporation$142
Across 165 payments — averaging $5701.70 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.
- Genentech, Inc.$322K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$267K
- Amgen$174K
- CSL Behring$118K
- AstraZeneca$42K
- Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$10K
- plus $9K from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,64938%
- Speaking & faculty fees$13,95049%
- Travel & lodging$2,2278%
- Food & beverage$1,5676%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 40 | $24,533 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | 4 | $1,789 |
| CSL Behring | 7 | $1,754 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 3 | $176 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 3 | $142 |
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.
- OFEV$9,518
How this compares
$28,393 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 73 critical care 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OfevNintedanib Esylate | 97 | $1,208,018 |
| Pirfenidone | 59 | $148,200 |
| Dupixent PenDupilumab | 13 | $46,276 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 31 | $22,021 |
| Mycophenolate Mofetil | 88 | $11,404 |
| Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide | 18 | $9,894 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 15 | $5,879 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 33 | $892 |
| Azathioprine | 20 | $573 |
| Esomeprazole Magnesium | 23 | $381 |
| Famotidine | 14 | $255 |
| Prednisone | 41 | $229 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 12 | $49 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimOfev, Spiriva Respimat | $24,533 | $1,217,912115 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 95th percentile of 73 critical care medicine providers in Alabama.
Other critical care medicine in Birmingham
- James WellsBirmingham$223K
- Mark DransfieldBirmingham$160K
- George SolomonBirmingham$113K
- Keith WilleBirmingham$9K
- Victor ThannickalBirmingham$8K
- Vipul ShahBirmingham$6K
- Samuel McElweeBirmingham$5K
- Nicole SchreinerBirmingham$4K
- David LafonBirmingham$4K
- Dhaval RavalBirmingham$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.