Victor Okunrintemi
Interventional Cardiology · Huntsville, ALNPI 1578054854
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (56.2%), travel and lodging and grants — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 34.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,523 and has fallen 88.0% since, to $785 in 2025.
Across 178 payments — averaging $66.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$4K
- Abbott$3K
- Medtronic$1K
- Terumo Medical Corporation$1K
- Amgen$588
- Abiomed$243
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$2,46121%
- Travel & lodging$2,64622%
- Food & beverage$6,63456%
- Education$661%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 21 | $4,019 |
| Abbott | 32 | $2,762 |
| Medtronic | 34 | $1,393 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 11 | $1,282 |
| Amgen | 25 | $588 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $243 |
| Pfizer | 18 | $238 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 2 | $233 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $196 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $178 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $135 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $118 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 5 | $96 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Bayer | 2 | $38 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $18 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $16 |
| Recor Medical Inc | 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.
- OPTIS$1,406
- GLIDESHEATH SLENDER$1,127
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$265
- AVVIGO Guidance System$249
- SYNERGY$242
- Orsiro Mission$233
- Diamondback Peripheral$154
- Repatha$148
- THE EDWARDS SAPIEN 3 VALVE WITH ALTERRA ADAPTIVE PRESTENT SYSTEM$140
- WATCHMAN FLX$136
- OPTICROSS$130
- Telescope$128
- Diamondback Coronary$124
- SUPERA$122
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$115
- Carto 3$104
- (6342) Intrasight Integrated$104
- COMET$103
How this compares
$11,807 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 109 interventional cardiology providers in Alabama.
Other interventional cardiology in Huntsville
- Michael ButlerHuntsville$109K
- Pochana ReddyHuntsville$100K
- Alejandro VasquezHuntsville$45K
- David DrenningHuntsville$31K
- Clarence GillHuntsville$13K
- Henry ChenHuntsville$8K
- Mihir KanitkarHuntsville$7K
- Gary RoubinBirmingham$157K
- Robert FosterBirmingham$90K
- Hasan GuvenBirmingham$86K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.