James Brock
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Birmingham, ALNPI 1790711711
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 170 payments — averaging $20.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$716
- Intuitive Surgical$486
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$304
- Aspira Women's Health Inc$243
- Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC$181
- Coopersurgical, Inc.$155
- plus $1K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2246%
- Food & beverage$3,30893%
- Education$120%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 38 | $716 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 7 | $486 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 20 | $304 |
| Aspira Women's Health Inc | 6 | $243 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 11 | $181 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 6 | $155 |
| Myriad Women's Health, Inc. | 2 | $126 |
| Bayer | 7 | $123 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 6 | $121 |
| Scynexis, Inc. | 6 | $112 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 5 | $84 |
| Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $76 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 4 | $73 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 5 | $68 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $68 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $66 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 4 | $58 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Amgen | 3 | $42 |
| Roche Diagnostics Corporation | 2 | $41 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $37 |
| Millicent US Inc | 2 | $37 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 2 | $35 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $23 |
| Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Monaghan Medical Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Medicem Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Meditrina | 1 | $15 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $15 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Alydia Health | 1 | $14 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Lupin Inc. | 1 | $11 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$3,544 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 537 obstetrics & gynecology providers in Alabama.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Estradiol (Twice Weekly)Estradiol | 16 | $1,770 |
| Estradiol | 60 | $1,648 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 16 | $996 |
| Zolpidem Tartrate | 30 | $96 |
| Fluconazole | 11 | $70 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Birmingham
- Charles SharpBirmingham$2.8M
- Ronald OrsoBirmingham$1.6M
- Theodore TsaltasBirmingham$853K
- Janeen ArbuckleBirmingham$601K
- Tomeka RobertsBirmingham$44K
- Percy HudsonBirmingham$29K
- Heidi StraughnBirmingham$29K
- William HudsonBirmingham$13K
- William JohnsonBirmingham$10K
- Cynthia BrownBirmingham$10K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.