Who Paid My Doc
Robert Bourge
Cardiovascular Disease Birmingham, AL Medical Doctor
NPI 1598712424 CMS profile 71475
2000 6Th Ave S, Birmingham, AL 35233
General payments
$26,436
Research payments
$157,307
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$563,672
Through program year 2025, Robert Bourge of Birmingham, AL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $26,436 across 18 general payments and $157,307 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $563,672 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 Cardiovascular Disease profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
12 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Research | $22,017 | 3 | |
| 2024 | Research | $6,625 | 1 | |
| 2023 | General | $200 | 1 | |
| 2023 | Research | $2,875 | 1 | |
| 2022 | General | $5,000 | 1 | |
| 2022 | Research | $19,408 | 2 | |
| 2021 | General | $6,750 | 1 | |
| 2021 | Research | $26,115 | 2 | |
| 2020 | General | $4,274 | 2 | |
| 2020 | Research | $31,375 | 3 | |
| 2019 | General | $10,212 | 13 | |
| 2019 | Research | $48,892 | 4 |
Beside peers
- Robert Bourge
- Cardiovascular Disease median
- Middle half of Cardiovascular Disease
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Robert Bourge were reported at $0. Among 16,617 Cardiovascular Disease profiles paid that year, the median was $432 and the middle half received between $132 and $1,252.
Show as a table
| Year | Robert Bourge | Cardiovascular Disease median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $10,212 | $450 | $127–$1,392 | $163 |
| 2020 | $4,274 | $242 | $77–$751 | $114 |
| 2021 | $6,750 | $335 | $101–$1,037 | $132 |
| 2022 | $5,000 | $395 | $121–$1,211 | $149 |
| 2023 | $200 | $443 | $136–$1,283 | $160 |
| 2024 | $0 | $450 | $136–$1,323 | $164 |
| 2025 | $0 | $432 | $132–$1,252 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 2 drugsPart D claims
22
Drug cost
$240
Branded share of claims
0%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | Generic | 11 | $151 | |
| Carvedilol | Generic | 11 | $89 |
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 800 Part D prescribers listed as Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Records
34 reportedEvery 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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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.