Whitney Stidham, APRN
Nurse Practitioner · Ashland, KYNPI 1720616196
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 148 payments — averaging $18.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$409
- Johnson & Johnson$354
- Seagen Inc.$240
- Merck$191
- Pfizer$156
- Gilead$142
- plus $1K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,53991%
- Education$2639%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 24 | $409 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 15 | $354 |
| Seagen Inc. | 11 | $240 |
| Merck | 11 | $191 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $156 |
| Gilead | 8 | $142 |
| Incyte Corporation | 7 | $142 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 9 | $141 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 7 | $137 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $121 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $109 |
| Coherus Oncology, Inc. | 4 | $69 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Amgen | 2 | $46 |
| Sobi, Inc | 3 | $40 |
| Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Puma Biotechnology, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Beigene USA, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $31 |
| CTI Biopharma Corp. | 2 | $30 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Stemline Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $22 |
| Foundation Medicine, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Bayer | 1 | $18 |
| Morphosys, US Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $14 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Novocure Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Biogen | 1 | $14 |
| Clovis Oncology, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Array Biopharma Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$2,802 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,918 nurse practitioner providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 45 | $832 |
| Nystatin | 20 | $512 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 24 | $243 |
| Buspirone Hcl | 25 | $147 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 20 | $132 |
| Levofloxacin | 15 | $31 |
| Prednisone | 19 | $19 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in Ashland
- Rachael BradfordLexington$447K
- Tara MuddLouisville$243K
- Lee HaasLouisville$95K
- Ashley KnableLouisville$86K
- Christina BenningerLouisville$81K
- Courtney BowlingCampbellsville$47K
- Rebecca BraunerLouisville$40K
- Scott SeitzWinchester$34K
- Kristen KreinestEdgewood$34K
- Lillian ArgentEdgewood$33K
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.