Jimmy Sparks
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Birmingham, ALNPI 1073606042
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 67 payments — averaging $17.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$249
- AbbVie$239
- Pfizer$128
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$126
- BD$106
- Therapeuticsmd, Inc.$49
- plus $281 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,16499%
- Education$141%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 10 | $249 |
| AbbVie | 12 | $239 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $128 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 9 | $126 |
| BD | 3 | $106 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 4 | $49 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Bayer | 2 | $33 |
| Duchesnay USA Incorporated | 2 | $30 |
| Merck | 2 | $28 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Lupin Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $12 |
| Minerva Surgical, Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Acessa Health 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.
- Prolia$110
How this compares
$1,178 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 537 obstetrics & gynecology providers in Alabama.
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.