Stanley Hewlett, MD
General Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1225096514
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $73,600 of the $96,664 with a category attached, or 76.1%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 95.1% of it on its own, with 30 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among general surgery 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 196 payments — averaging $493.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$92K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- AbbVie$729
- Davol Inc.$651
- Medtronic$616
- Johnson & Johnson$320
- plus $1K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,5006%
- Travel & lodging$8,9769%
- Food & beverage$8,5879%
- Education$73,60076%
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 | 95 | $91,936 |
| Boston Scientific | 12 | $1,089 |
| AbbVie | 22 | $729 |
| Davol Inc. | 7 | $651 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $616 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 8 | $320 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $183 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $109 |
| Conmed Corporation | 4 | $106 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Globus Medical | 4 | $80 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $79 |
| Bayer | 4 | $79 |
| Argon Medical Devices, Inc. | 6 | $58 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Merck | 2 | $42 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 1 | $40 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $34 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $28 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Genmab U.S., Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Beone Medicines USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $20 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $19 |
| Acrotech Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $16 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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$90,881
- SPYGLASS$520
- Phasix Mesh$444
- Beacon$336
- GI Genius$257
- CellerateRx$183
- Creon$113
- Restrata Wound Matrix$103
How this compares
$96,664 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 28 general surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase | 31 | $90,430 |
| Ursodiol | 25 | $3,072 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 25 | $468 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieCreon | $729 | $90,43031 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 95th percentile of 28 general surgery providers in Alabama.
Other general surgery in Birmingham
- William ThompsonBirmingham$13K
- Kayellen WilloughbyBirmingham$4K
- Lee SchmittBirmingham$3K
- Xin HuangBirmingham$909
- Andrea GillisBirmingham$552
- Lacey SwensonBirmingham$540
- April MadduxBirmingham$355
- Nathan ManleyBirmingham$0
- Quince-Xhosa GibsonBirmingham$0
- Omar RokayakBirmingham$0
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.