Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

James Strong

Neurology Birmingham, AL Medical Doctor

NPI 1619970290 CMS profile 209001

3686 Grandview Pkwy Ste 600, Birmingham, AL 35243

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General payments

$38,661

2,182 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, James Strong of Birmingham, AL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $38,661 across 2,182 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 88th percentile of Neurology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $6,512 315
2024 General $7,545 338
2023 General $5,737 322
2022 General $5,660 342
2021 General $5,037 319
2020 General $4,338 278
2019 General $3,833 268

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • James Strong
  • Neurology median
  • Middle half of Neurology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to James Strong were reported at $6,512. Among 11,022 Neurology profiles paid that year, the median was $457 and the middle half received between $118 and $2,344.

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Year James Strong Neurology median Middle half National median
2019 $3,833 $474 $118–$2,177 $163
2020 $4,338 $367 $82–$2,309 $114
2021 $5,037 $438 $104–$2,547 $132
2022 $5,660 $442 $103–$2,388 $149
2023 $5,737 $464 $119–$2,312 $160
2024 $7,545 $468 $119–$2,323 $164
2025 $6,512 $457 $118–$2,344 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AbbVie, Inc. $4,650 326 payments
  2. UCB, Inc. $2,560 131 payments
  3. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $2,188 121 payments
  4. Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $1,445 67 payments
  5. Biogen, Inc. $1,363 101 payments
  6. Pfizer Inc. $1,279 74 payments
  7. CSL Behring $1,222 36 payments
  8. Allergan Inc. $1,206 100 payments
  9. Lilly USA, LLC $1,199 81 payments
  10. Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. $1,193 60 payments
  11. Other $20,356 1,085 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $37,939 2,133 payments
  2. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $504 31 payments
  3. Education $218 18 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. UBRELVY $2,041 178 payments
  2. QULIPTA $1,536 101 payments
  3. Hizentra $1,222 36 payments
  4. Briviact $1,171 58 payments
  5. INGREZZA $1,165 58 payments
  6. NURTEC ODT $1,109 62 payments
  7. KESIMPTA $1,093 56 payments
  8. AIMOVIG $1,015 63 payments
  9. ZAVZPRET $1,004 54 payments
  10. ULTOMIRIS $975 40 payments
  11. Other $30,241 1,762 payments

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

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 86 drugs

Part D claims

4,235

Median for Neurology: 833

Drug cost

$1,700,585

Median for Neurology: $202,670

Branded share of claims

27.9%

Median for Neurology: 25.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Gammaplex Immun Glob G(Igg)/Gly/Iga 0-50 Brand 39 $623,359
Hizentra Immun Glob G(Igg)/Pro/Iga 0-50 Brand 16 $222,424
Ubrelvy Ubrogepant Brand 135 $166,938
Qulipta Atogepant Brand 98 $115,903
Avonex Pen (4 Pack) Interferon Beta-1a Brand 12 $96,437
Banzel Rufinamide Brand 12 $76,421
Fycompa Perampanel Brand 43 $65,016
Emgality Pen Galcanezumab-Gnlm Brand 54 $45,530
Botox Onabotulinumtoxina Brand 30 $34,797
Nurtec Odt Rimegepant Sulfate Brand 17 $27,297

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 86 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 13,695 Part D prescribers listed as Neurology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 28 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$122,794

Of which drugs: $57,897

Medicare patients

302

Average age 73

Services billed

12,922

180 women, 122 men among their patients

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%
Arthritis 69%
Ischemic heart disease 38%
Depression 35%
Diabetes 33%
Chronic kidney disease 28%
Atrial fibrillation 24%
COPD 18%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, onabotulinumtoxina, 1 unit J0585 Office 30 11,716 $56,277

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.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 63 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
Gocovri
$700 — —
ULTOMIRIS
$462 — —
KESIMPTA
$436 — —
Rystiggo
$430 — —
QULIPTA
$399 98 —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

2,182 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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 2025

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

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