Vernon Forrester, MD
MOHS-Micrographic Surgery · Madison, ALNPI 1679002729
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 163 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 24 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 163 payments — averaging $22.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Organogenesis Inc.$750
- AbbVie$510
- Novartis$447
- Johnson & Johnson$396
- Sanofi$266
- Kerecis Limited$169
- plus $1K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,653100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Organogenesis Inc. | 18 | $750 |
| AbbVie | 34 | $510 |
| Novartis | 30 | $447 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 16 | $396 |
| Sanofi | 10 | $266 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $169 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $159 |
| Amgen | 7 | $152 |
| UCB, Inc. | 5 | $126 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 6 | $117 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 5 | $106 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $79 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 5 | $77 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $46 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $38 |
| Incyte Corporation | 2 | $36 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Almirall LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| EPI Health, LLC | 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
Too few mohs-micrographic surgery providers in Alabamato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gentamicin Sulfate | 80 | $3,473 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 46 | $2,998 |
| Fluorouracil | 29 | $2,310 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 115 | $1,731 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 105 | $1,694 |
| Ketoconazole | 72 | $1,255 |
| Selenium Sulfide | 113 | $1,225 |
| Fluocinonide | 31 | $1,154 |
| Metronidazole | 11 | $1,070 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 16 | $752 |
| Mupirocin | 83 | $732 |
| Cephalexin | 100 | $558 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 21 | $492 |
| Minoxidil | 34 | $342 |
| Fluconazole | 22 | $117 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other mohs-micrographic surgery in Madison
- Albert RiveraMadison$6K
- Gary MonheitBirmingham$37K
- Jeffrey StrickerDothan$10K
- Adam RichardsonNorthport$8K
- Michael HadleyBirmingham$3K
- Scott FreemanMobile$3K
- Bailey TayebiBirmingham$3K
- Conway HuangBirmingham$3K
- Raj PatelAlabaster$2K
- Michael FranzettiBirmingham$2K
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.