Karla Kennedy, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Birmingham, ALNPI 1720079908
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 252 payments — averaging $18.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$483
- Pfizer$301
- Shield Therapeutics Inc$260
- Bayer$258
- Sage Therapeutics, LLC$204
- Baxter Healthcare$203
- plus $3K from 32 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,59599%
- Education$681%
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(2 entities) | 29 | $483 |
| Pfizer | 19 | $301 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 14 | $260 |
| Bayer | 14 | $258 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 11 | $204 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $203 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 10 | $192 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 12 | $189 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 10 | $170 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 11 | $163 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 5 | $162 |
| Organon | 7 | $158 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 9 | $158 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 12 | $155 |
| Exact Sciences | 10 | $154 |
| Millicent US Inc | 9 | $151 |
| Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $122 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $116 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 8 | $116 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 6 | $113 |
| Myriad Women's Health, Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $89 |
| Biogen | 1 | $75 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $68 |
| Aspira Women's Health Inc | 1 | $68 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Duchesnay USA Incorporated | 3 | $49 |
| Scynexis, Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Amgen | 3 | $44 |
| Minerva Surgical, Inc | 3 | $43 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Merck | 2 | $25 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Monaghan Medical Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Lupin Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$4,663 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 | 30 | $9,074 |
| Estradiol | 99 | $3,568 |
| Estradiol (Twice Weekly)Estradiol | 27 | $2,623 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 16 | $1,401 |
| ProgesteroneProgesterone, Micronized | 23 | $1,032 |
| Ibandronate Sodium | 16 | $233 |
| Spironolactone | 12 | $218 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 11 | $179 |
| Fluconazole | 32 | $152 |
| Medroxyprogesterone Acetate | 13 | $136 |
| Escitalopram Oxalate | 12 | $102 |
| Zolpidem Tartrate | 14 | $76 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 14 | $74 |
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 | $301 | $9,07430 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 80th 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).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.