Addiction Medicine in Alabama
14 providers, $51,607 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays addiction medicine clinicians in Alabama
Across 5 addiction medicine clinicians in Alabama who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $67,016 in total — an average of $13,403 each, of which $13,382 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Michael WilkersonWarrior$40,465
- 2Stephen TaylorBirmingham$5,946
- 3James HarrowMontgomery$1,979
- 4William LemonsHoover$910
- 5Ann StillAthens$822
- 6Wilbur WellsBirmingham$395
- 7Donald WilliamsJasper$374
- 8Dylan CaggianoMobile$292
- 9Peter LaneBirmingham$202
- 10Nancy WhiteHuntsville$74
- 11Thomas MoodyHomewood$69
- 12Peter BarenBirmingham$58
- 13Charles ElliottGadsden$21
- 14Frank BensonDecatur$0