William Paul
Rheumatology · Mountain Brk, ALNPI 1407831589
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.6% of the total across 354 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 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,222 and has fallen 68.8% since, to $694 in 2022. That places this record below the midpoint for rheumatology clinicians in AL, where the typical reported total is $8,965.
Across 354 payments — averaging $19.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$2K
- AbbVie$818
- GSK$529
- Novartis$503
- Johnson & Johnson$481
- Pfizer$423
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,65699%
- Education$951%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen(2 entities) | 77 | $1,613 |
| AbbVie | 48 | $818 |
| GSK | 18 | $529 |
| Novartis | 31 | $503 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 34 | $481 |
| Pfizer | 31 | $423 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 23 | $352 |
| UCB, Inc. | 19 | $290 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $254 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $253 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 15 | $229 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 3 | $170 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 9 | $144 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 9 | $144 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 7 | $123 |
| Medexus Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $116 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 4 | $86 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 5 | $76 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 4 | $65 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
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
$6,751 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 90 rheumatology providers in Alabama.
Other rheumatology in Mountain Brk
- Anthony TurkiewiczMountain Brk$2.2M
- Peter SawayMountain Brk$166K
- Maura KennedyMountain Brk$18K
- Laura ParksMountain Brk$16K
- Joel AbbottMountain Brk$14K
- Jeffrey CurtisBirmingham$612K
- David McLainBirmingham$588K
- Ray McLaughinTuscaloosa$332K
- Elizabeth PerkinsHoover$264K
- Kenneth SaagBirmingham$143K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.