Medical Doctor Program year 2024 Reported 2019–2024 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Almena Free

Internal Medicine Anniston, AL Medical Doctor

NPI 1144244070 CMS profile 279033

400 E 10Th St, Anniston, AL 36207

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General payments

$543

27 records reported · program years 2019–2024

Research payments

$30,287

Paid to them · 6 records reported · program years 2019–2024

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$12,721,141 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2025

Through program year 2024, Almena Free of Anniston, AL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $543 across 27 general payments and $30,287 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $12,721,141 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 98th percentile of Internal Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

8 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2024 General $31 1
2024 Research $26,469 2
2023 General $215 7
2022 General $46 3
2022 Research $3,818 4
2021 General $88 6
2020 General $62 4
2019 General $100 6

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Almena Free
  • Internal Medicine median
  • Middle half of Internal Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Almena Free were reported at $0. Among 52,115 Internal Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $156 and the middle half received between $47 and $551.

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Year Almena Free Internal Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $100 $159 $48–$570 $163
2020 $62 $119 $33–$402 $114
2021 $88 $135 $37–$521 $132
2022 $46 $141 $42–$496 $149
2023 $215 $149 $45–$519 $160
2024 $31 $154 $47–$537 $164
2025 $0 $156 $47–$551 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $169 8 payments
  2. AbbVie, Inc. $114 8 payments
  3. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $99 2 payments
  4. Pfizer Inc. $53 3 payments
  5. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $53 3 payments
  6. Organogenesis Inc. $31 1 payment
  7. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $23 2 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. Food and Beverage $543 27 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. XARELTO $169 8 payments
  2. DALVANCE $114 8 payments
  3. Da Vinci Surgical System $99 2 payments
  4. ELIQUIS $53 3 payments
  5. ZERBAXA $35 2 payments
  6. PURAPLY AM $31 1 payment
  7. SIMPONI ARIA $23 2 payments
  8. STELARA $23 2 payments
  9. CHANTIX $20 1 payment
  10. DIFICID $17 1 payment

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. Eli Lilly and Company $29,058 3 payments
  2. Astellas Pharma Inc $1,229 3 payments

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 3 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$17,435

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

27

Average age 55

Services billed

207

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Depression 75%
COPD 56%
Arthritis 48%
Osteoporosis 0%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

33 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2024

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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