Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Ryan Weldon

Internal Medicine Birmingham, AL Medical Doctor

NPI 1568724870 CMS profile 297796

2145 Highland Ave South, Suite 200, Birmingham, AL 35205

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General payments

$457,693

1,555 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Ryan Weldon of Birmingham, AL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $457,693 across 1,555 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of Internal Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $82,588 254
2024 General $81,942 254
2023 General $91,566 275
2022 General $97,550 255
2021 General $58,126 162
2020 General $24,722 120
2019 General $21,198 235

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Ryan Weldon
  • Internal Medicine median
  • Middle half of Internal Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Ryan Weldon were reported at $82,588. Among 52,115 Internal Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $156 and the middle half received between $47 and $551.

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Year Ryan Weldon Internal Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $21,198 $159 $48–$570 $163
2020 $24,722 $119 $33–$402 $114
2021 $58,126 $135 $37–$521 $132
2022 $97,550 $141 $42–$496 $149
2023 $91,566 $149 $45–$519 $160
2024 $81,942 $154 $47–$537 $164
2025 $82,588 $156 $47–$551 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $205,456 255 payments
  2. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $135,537 158 payments
  3. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $44,795 62 payments
  4. Horizon Therapeutics plc $25,383 57 payments
  5. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $16,203 104 payments
  6. Amgen Inc. $14,471 160 payments
  7. AbbVie, Inc. $5,636 214 payments
  8. UCB, Inc. $1,573 93 payments
  9. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $1,545 66 payments
  10. Pfizer Inc. $1,445 98 payments
  11. Other $5,647 288 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $337,330 136 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $41,667 123 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $33,596 1,273 payments
  4. Consulting Fee $22,575 6 payments
  5. Honoraria $22,238 12 payments
  6. Education $287 5 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. BENLYSTA $204,270 247 payments
  2. SAPHNELO $135,503 157 payments
  3. KRYSTEXXA Krystexxa $25,238 45 payments
  4. OFEV $11,831 20 payments
  5. KRYSTEXXA Inflammation/Rare Disease $9,166 18 payments
  6. RINVOQ $3,859 145 payments
  7. COSENTYX $1,342 46 payments
  8. XELJANZ $1,327 89 payments
  9. Cimzia $1,155 73 payments
  10. TREMFYA $1,143 44 payments
  11. Other $14,610 772 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 53 drugs

Part D claims

4,152

Median for Rheumatology: 1,511

Drug cost

$2,169,691

Median for Rheumatology: $1,139,948

Branded share of claims

36.3%

Median for Rheumatology: 28.8%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Humira(Cf) Pen Adalimumab Brand 105 $774,625
Enbrel Sureclick Etanercept Brand 53 $394,567
Gamunex-C Immune Globul G/Gly/Iga Avg 46 Brand 13 $230,071
Rinvoq Upadacitinib Brand 19 $140,709
Actemra Actpen Tocilizumab Brand 28 $113,978
Enbrel Etanercept Brand 15 $112,435
Orencia Clickject Abatacept Brand 15 $85,806
Tymlos Abaloparatide Brand 33 $84,377
Humira(Cf) Adalimumab Brand 11 $74,025
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate Generic 511 $35,573

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 53 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 5,224 Part D prescribers listed as Rheumatology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 62 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$1,035,416

Of which drugs: $948,000

Medicare patients

286

Average age 74

Services billed

76,083

218 women, 68 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 75%
Osteoporosis 44%
Chronic kidney disease 30%
Depression 27%
Diabetes 23%
COPD 21%
Ischemic heart disease 20%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, abatacept, 10 mg (code may be used for medicare when drug administered under the direct supervision of a physician, not for use when drug is self administered) J0129 Office 19 9,575 $324,010
Injection, golimumab, 1 mg, for intravenous use J1602 Office 24 17,900 $162,618
Injection, denosumab, 1 mg J0897 Office 52 4,080 $84,467
Injection, zoledronic acid, 1 mg J3489 Office 12 60 $286
Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 1 mg J1010 Office 18 890 $87

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 28 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
BENLYSTA
$35,882 — —
SAPHNELO
$32,730 — —
KRYSTEXXA
$3,773 — —
RINVOQ
$587 19 —
COSENTYX
$405 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

1,555 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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