Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in Alabama
40 providers, $155,519 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $581.
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 child & adolescent psychiatry clinicians in Alabama
Across 14 child & adolescent psychiatry clinicians in Alabama who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $216,855 in total — an average of $15,490 each, of which $15,490 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
- 1Nelson HandalDothan$80,202
- 2Artie NelsonBirmingham$31,994
- 3Jerlyn McCleodDothan$9,371
- 4Karen CallahanBirmingham$5,005
- 5Curtis AdamsHuntsville$4,909
- 6Casey LowreyBirmingham$4,490
- 7Aparna VuppalaHuntsville$2,726
- 8Richard SinclairMobile$1,656
- 9John Broderick-CantwellDaphne$1,565
- 10Christiana WilkinsOpelika$1,483
- 11Elizabeth FergusonBirmingham$1,269
- 12Austin LukerOpelika$1,215
- 13Srilata AnneBirmingham$1,161
- 14Edgar FinnMobile$1,130
- 15Stewart WaddellBirmingham$1,123
- 16Adeel RabbaniVestavia Hls$1,109
- 17Abhishek WadhwaBirmingham$978
- 18Christina TalericoMobile$805
- 19Francisca MgbodileBirmingham$582
- 20Clarence McDanalAnniston$581
- 21John KirkDecatur$384
- 22Maria HamiltonMobile$350
- 23Jeffrey TischMobile$329
- 24Linda HutchisonMobile$145
- 25Tolulope AdurojaMaxwell Afb$125
- 26Kristin leHomewood$118
- 27Daniel SwartzMadison$112
- 28Nasima AminTuscaloosa$111
- 29Karis KnightDecatur$103
- 30Julie BernsteinMobile$62
- 31James CullinanBirmingham$57
- 32Tom VaughanBirmingham$49
- 33Todd LuellenMobile$44
- 34Tolulope PetersBirmingham$35
- 35Kara KilpatrickBirmingham$31
- 36Boone RountreeWoodstock$29
- 37Jesse MartinezBirmingham$26
- 38Roland PixleyHomewood$18
- 39Vinita YalamanchiliBirmingham$18
- 40James EdwardsMontgomery$18