RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Wiedmer, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Anniston, ALNPI 1225027790

Payments from drug & device makers

$581in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 26 payments — averaging $22.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$270
  • Smith+Nephew$80
  • Sanara Medtech Inc.$71
  • Kerecis Limited$36
  • Bioventus LLC$25
  • Convatec Inc.$21
  • plus $77 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$581100%

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

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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.

How this compares

$581 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 319 orthopaedic surgery providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$191,153
Medicare patients
443
Services billed
5,459

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
XareltoRivaroxaban30$10,623
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen588$7,317
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen111$1,728
Celecoxib53$1,423
Gabapentin57$642
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl50$594
Doxycycline Hyclate55$445
Oxycodone Hcl42$406
Tramadol Hcl81$404
Methylprednisolone49$403
Hydrocodone-IbuprofenHydrocodone/Ibuprofen11$365
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine31$315
Meloxicam58$310
Ibuprofen22$301
Diclofenac Sodium15$253

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$270$10,62330 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 25th percentile of 319 orthopaedic surgery providers in Alabama.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Anniston

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