Richard Whitley
Pediatric Infectious Diseases · Birmingham, ALNPI 1649287871
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $1,126,259 of the $1,173,821 with a category attached, or 95.9%. Gilead accounts for 91.7% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $476,085 and has fallen 92.4% since, to $36,353 in 2025.
Across 203 payments — averaging $5782.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$1.1M
- Visby Medical, Inc.$40K
- Merck$27K
- GSK$18K
- Modernatx, Inc.$8K
- PTC Therapeutics, Inc.$3K
- plus $965 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,126,25996%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3950%
- Travel & lodging$43,0464%
- Food & beverage$4,1210%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 145 | $1,076,920 |
| Visby Medical, Inc. | 8 | $40,000 |
| Merck | 24 | $27,413 |
| GSK | 18 | $17,623 |
| Modernatx, Inc. | 1 | $8,100 |
| PTC Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $2,800 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $570 |
| F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG | 1 | $395 |
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.
- Visby Medical Sexual Health Click Test$40,000
- PREVYMIS$24,438
- Visby Medical Respiratory Health Test$20,000
- Moderna Covid-19 Vaccine$8,100
- NO PRODUCT DISCUSSED$427
- Tamiflu$395
How this compares
Too few pediatric infectious diseases providers in Alabamato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other pediatric infectious diseases in Birmingham
- Charlotte HobbsBirmingham$16K
- William BrittBirmingham$13K
- Shannon RossBirmingham$3K
- Stephen ObaroBirmingham$2K
- Lindsey HastingsBirmingham$125
- Nour HasanBirmingham$12
- Claudette Lapage PooleBirmingham$0
- Swetha PinnintiBirmingham$0
- David KimberlinBirmingham$0
- Benjamin EstradaMobile$495
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.