John Wideman, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Cullman, ALNPI 1336255728
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,947 of the $3,639 with a category attached, or 81.0%. 34 manufacturers reported payments, led by Pfizer at 41.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,638 and has fallen 88.5% since, to $189 in 2025.
Across 130 payments — averaging $27.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$2K
- AbbVie$455
- Shield Therapeutics Inc$245
- Aspira Women's Health Inc$216
- Amgen$125
- Myriad Women's Health, Inc.$117
- plus $977 from 28 others
Across 97 payments — averaging $23,376 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Pfizer$2.3M
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$59816%
- Food & beverage$2,94781%
- Education$832%
- Gifts$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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 18 | $1,505 |
| AbbVie | 35 | $455 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 12 | $245 |
| Aspira Women's Health Inc | 2 | $216 |
| Amgen | 10 | $125 |
| Myriad Women's Health, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $76 |
| Organon | 4 | $67 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $60 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 3 | $56 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $55 |
| Scynexis, Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $52 |
| Duchesnay USA Incorporated | 4 | $52 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Bayer | 2 | $34 |
| BD | 2 | $32 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $19 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
| Orexo US, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Lupin Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Ascend Therapeutics US, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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
$3,639 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 537 obstetrics & gynecology providers in Alabama.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| PremarinEstrogens, Conjugated | 21 | $8,923 |
| Estradiol | 101 | $4,175 |
| Estradiol (Twice Weekly)Estradiol | 24 | $2,514 |
| Estradiol (Once Weekly)Estradiol | 23 | $1,641 |
| Fluconazole | 27 | $253 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride | 11 | $222 |
| Acyclovir | 16 | $145 |
| Zolpidem Tartrate | 12 | $117 |
| Fluoxetine Hcl | 15 | $100 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerPremarin | $1,505 | $8,92321 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 537 obstetrics & gynecology providers in Alabama.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Cullman
- Theodore TsaltasBirmingham$853K
- Richard BrownGulf Shores$429K
- Timothy HughesMobile$149K
- Allison CalhounMobile$132K
- Praful PatelDothan$65K
- Angela McCool-PearsonFairhope$57K
- Tomeka RobertsBirmingham$44K
- Percy HudsonBirmingham$29K
- Heidi StraughnBirmingham$29K
- Francois BlaudeauHomewood$25K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.