William Geisler, MD
Infectious Disease · Birmingham, ALNPI 1740224989
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (42.4%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Sanofi Pasteur Inc. at 55.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $33,899 and has fallen 89.9% since, to $3,413 in 2025. Among infectious disease clinicians in AL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 37 payments — averaging $1701.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$35K
- Gen-probe, Inc.$9K
- Roche Diagnostics Corporation$5K
- Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.$4K
- GSK$3K
- Gen-probe Sales & Service, Inc.$3K
- plus $4K from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$26,70242%
- Speaking & faculty fees$19,07730%
- Travel & lodging$16,07526%
- Food & beverage$1,0842%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 9 | $35,202 |
| Gen-probe, Inc. | 6 | $8,813 |
| Roche Diagnostics Corporation | 4 | $4,818 |
| Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. | 3 | $4,072 |
| GSK | 3 | $3,413 |
| Gen-probe Sales & Service, Inc. | 2 | $2,792 |
| Merck | 1 | $1,395 |
| Abbott | 2 | $1,306 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 4 | $515 |
| Visby Medical, Inc. | 1 | $500 |
| BD | 2 | $112 |
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
$62,938 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 104 infectious disease 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 infectious disease in Birmingham
- John BaddleyBirmingham$113K
- Christina MuznyBirmingham$111K
- Sonya HeathBirmingham$80K
- Edward HookBirmingham$61K
- Edgar OvertonBirmingham$46K
- Jane SchwebkeBirmingham$42K
- Peter PappasBirmingham$25K
- Jeanne MarrazzoBirmingham$23K
- Todd McCartyBirmingham$20K
- Anurag GandhiBirmingham$19K
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.