Cardiology in Alabama
8 providers, $25,576 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 cardiology clinicians in Alabama
Across 8 cardiology clinicians in Alabama who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,928,525 in total — an average of $241,066 each, of which $239,804 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
- 1John NeillBirmingham$13,936
- 2Michael PursleyFairhope$5,058
- 3Osita OnyekwereAnniston$3,642
- 4Glenn HarrisFairhope$2,941
- 5Sharon DaileyBirmingham$0
- 6Gilbert PerryBirmingham$0
- 7Ferdinand UrthalerBirmingham$0
- 8Richard ChernickMobile$0