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

Monica Hunter

Interventional Cardiology Birmingham, AL Medical Doctor

NPI 1861446866 CMS profile 84538

833 Saint Vincents Dr, Birmingham, AL 35205

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General payments

$10,277

536 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

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

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$10,750 paid to institutions, not to them · program year 2019

Through program year 2025, Monica Hunter of Birmingham, AL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $10,277 across 536 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $10,750 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 59th percentile of Interventional Cardiology 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 $1,401 76
2024 General $1,365 67
2023 General $1,501 86
2022 General $1,205 68
2021 General $1,678 99
2020 General $1,276 65
2019 General $1,852 75

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Monica Hunter
  • Interventional Cardiology median
  • Middle half of Interventional Cardiology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Monica Hunter were reported at $1,401. Among 6,173 Interventional Cardiology profiles paid that year, the median was $1,092 and the middle half received between $366 and $3,019.

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Year Monica Hunter Interventional Cardiology median Middle half National median
2019 $1,852 $1,097 $329–$3,048 $163
2020 $1,276 $473 $161–$1,480 $114
2021 $1,678 $677 $233–$1,827 $132
2022 $1,205 $978 $333–$2,724 $149
2023 $1,501 $1,136 $382–$2,986 $160
2024 $1,365 $1,181 $395–$3,326 $164
2025 $1,401 $1,092 $366–$3,019 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $1,814 117 payments
  2. Abbott Laboratories $933 22 payments
  3. Pfizer Inc. $764 37 payments
  4. Amgen Inc. $756 67 payments
  5. Novo Nordisk Inc $494 28 payments
  6. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $480 35 payments
  7. Abiomed $475 11 payments
  8. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $390 23 payments
  9. ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $382 30 payments
  10. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $351 21 payments
  11. Other $3,438 145 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $10,271 535 payments
  2. Education $6 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. LEQVIO $844 50 payments
  2. ENTRESTO Cardiovascular $640 45 payments
  3. ELIQUIS $561 27 payments
  4. Repatha $546 45 payments
  5. XARELTO $480 35 payments
  6. Impella $475 11 payments
  7. VERQUVO $442 26 payments
  8. LifeVest $382 30 payments
  9. ENTRESTO Cardiology/Vascular Diseases $319 19 payments
  10. JETi Peripheral Catheter $275 2 payments
  11. Other $6,495 319 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 · 83 drugs

Part D claims

6,145

Median for Interventional Cardiology: 2,236

Drug cost

$1,239,732

Median for Interventional Cardiology: $380,412

Branded share of claims

34.3%

Median for Interventional Cardiology: 27.8%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 563 $499,180
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 198 $212,240
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 126 $104,728
Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab Brand 162 $103,189
Wegovy Semaglutide Brand 47 $62,094
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 84 $60,940
Ozempic Semaglutide Brand 24 $30,141
Multaq Dronedarone Hcl Brand 39 $28,233
Brilinta Ticagrelor Brand 36 $18,499
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 23 $13,046

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 83 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 4,694 Part D prescribers listed as Interventional Cardiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 162 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$268,635

Of which drugs: $4,067

Medicare patients

985

Average age 77

Services billed

10,376

581 women, 404 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 55%
Ischemic heart disease 47%
Diabetes 37%
Chronic kidney disease 37%
Atrial fibrillation 35%
Heart failure 29%
Depression 28%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Low osmolar contrast material, 300-399 mg/ml iodine concentration, per ml Q9967 Office 13 1,300 $126

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 16 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
LEQVIO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $286
$286 — —
Repatha
  • Amgen Inc. $145
$145 173 —
Arcalyst
  • Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, plc $123
$123 — —
JARDIANCE
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $79
$79 84 —
ENTRESTO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $79
$79 198 —

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

536 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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