Provider records sourced from NPPES (CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System). Data current as of October 4, 2026.
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Dr. Erald Lula

Individual provider Internal Medicine Physician · NPI 1790246098

Dr. Erald Lula practises Internal Medicine in Hoover, Alabama. Qualified in 2018, 8 years ago. Practices with First Docs LLC, a 23-clinician group and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in Alabama.

Years since qualifying
8
Licensed in
AL
In the registry since
2019
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Practice location Address checks out

3850 Galleria Woods Dr
Hoover, AL 35244-1098
Phone: (586) 804-2075
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Specialties & licences

Internal Medicine Physician (primary) Taxonomy 207R00000X · Licence MD.44788 (AL)

Record details

NPI number1790246098
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedMarch 28, 2019
Last updated in NPPESJune 22, 2026
Certification dateJune 22, 2026

Medicare enrollment

From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is enrolled in Medicare.

Medicare specialtyINTERNAL MEDICINE
Medical schoolOTHER
Graduated 2018 (8 years in practice)
Group practice First Docs Llc — 23 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount
Practice locations3 on file with Medicare

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Medicare patients466
Services billed 5,418 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age82

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Food and Beverage $242 2 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

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Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician. Those with a page here are linked.

  • Fair Haven Nursing home · Birmingham, AL · listed as Methodist Home for the Aging
  • Galleria Woods Skilled Nursing Facility Nursing home · Birmingham, AL · listed as Ccrc Opco-Galleria Woods, LLC
  • Merry Wood Lodge Nursing home · Elmore, AL · listed as Merrywood Lodge
  • Prattville Baptist Hospital Hospital · Prattville, AL
  • Walker Baptist Medical Center Hospital · Jasper, AL
  • Aveanna Hospice Of Cullman Hospice · Cullman, AL
  • Ivy Creek Hospice Hospice · Dadeville, AL

Colleagues at First Docs LLC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 23 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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