Who Paid My Doc
Heather Forson
Physician Assistant, Surgical Birmingham, AL Physician Assistant
NPI 1265485601 CMS profile 10889644
619 19Th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35233
General payments
$8,292
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2025, Heather Forson of Birmingham, AL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $8,292 across 447 general payments and $0 in research payments paid 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.
General payments for this record sit in the 97th percentile of Physician Assistant, Surgical profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
5 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $1,679 | 85 | |
| 2024 | General | $1,220 | 72 | |
| 2023 | General | $1,794 | 89 | |
| 2022 | General | $1,962 | 108 | |
| 2021 | General | $1,636 | 93 |
Beside peers
- Heather Forson
- Physician Assistant, Surgical median
- Middle half of Physician Assistant, Surgical
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Heather Forson were reported at $1,679. Among 8,152 Physician Assistant, Surgical profiles paid that year, the median was $146 and the middle half received between $51 and $385.
Show as a table
| Year | Heather Forson | Physician Assistant, Surgical median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $0 | — | — | $163 |
| 2020 | $0 | — | — | $114 |
| 2021 | $1,636 | $111 | $36–$285 | $132 |
| 2022 | $1,962 | $126 | $44–$350 | $149 |
| 2023 | $1,794 | $137 | $47–$355 | $160 |
| 2024 | $1,220 | $146 | $49–$384 | $164 |
| 2025 | $1,679 | $146 | $51–$385 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Records
447 reportedEvery payment, record by record
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.