Njideka Obiekwe, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Opelika, ALNPI 1730265430
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,921 of the $11,385 with a category attached, or 60.8%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 77.4% of it on its own, with 33 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among obstetrics & gynecology clinicians in AL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 193 payments — averaging $58.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$9K
- Exeltis, USA Inc.$480
- Coopersurgical, Inc.$268
- Lupin Inc.$223
- Therapeuticsmd, Inc.$165
- Johnson & Johnson$159
- plus $1K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,16828%
- Food & beverage$6,92161%
- Education$1,0289%
- Gifts$2682%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 59 | $8,814 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 24 | $480 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 11 | $268 |
| Lupin Inc. | 17 | $223 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 9 | $165 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $159 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 9 | $145 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 8 | $140 |
| Bayer | 6 | $103 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $80 |
| BD | 3 | $75 |
| Organon | 3 | $68 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 3 | $62 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $59 |
| Millicent US Inc | 3 | $56 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $47 |
| Monaghan Medical Corporation | 1 | $43 |
| Minerva Surgical, Inc | 3 | $42 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Northgate Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Amgen | 1 | $21 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $18 |
| Dysis Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $16 |
| Roche Diagnostics Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Evofem Biosciences, 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$6,621
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
How this compares
$11,385 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 38 | $2,561 |
| Ibandronate Sodium | 82 | $1,470 |
| Medroxyprogesterone Acetate | 23 | $659 |
| Metronidazole | 72 | $358 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 15 | $220 |
| Estradiol | 14 | $157 |
| Fluconazole | 22 | $78 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 13 | $12 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Opelika
- 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.