Who Paid My Doc
William Hedden
Plastic Surgery Birmingham, AL Medical Doctor
NPI 1588616551 CMS profile 977862
140 Village St, Suite 100, Birmingham, AL 35242
General payments
$3,366
Research payments
$34,143
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$73,651
Through program year 2025, William Hedden of Birmingham, AL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $3,366 across 129 general payments and $34,143 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $73,651 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than 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. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 93rd percentile of Plastic Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
11 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $840 | 28 | |
| 2024 | General | $608 | 18 | |
| 2024 | Research | $6,722 | 1 | |
| 2023 | General | $382 | 11 | |
| 2022 | General | $287 | 9 | |
| 2022 | Research | $10,567 | 3 | |
| 2021 | General | $255 | 15 | |
| 2021 | Research | $15,485 | 4 | |
| 2020 | General | $67 | 4 | |
| 2019 | General | $928 | 44 | |
| 2019 | Research | $1,369 | 1 |
Beside peers
- William Hedden
- Plastic Surgery median
- Middle half of Plastic Surgery
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to William Hedden were reported at $840. Among 3,701 Plastic Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $379 and the middle half received between $138 and $1,100.
Show as a table
| Year | William Hedden | Plastic Surgery median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $928 | $371 | $122–$1,483 | $163 |
| 2020 | $67 | $158 | $52–$438 | $114 |
| 2021 | $255 | $249 | $87–$752 | $132 |
| 2022 | $287 | $274 | $102–$793 | $149 |
| 2023 | $382 | $299 | $113–$891 | $160 |
| 2024 | $608 | $361 | $124–$1,062 | $164 |
| 2025 | $840 | $379 | $138–$1,100 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 3 drugsPart D claims
48
Drug cost
$253
Branded share of claims
33.3%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen | Brand | 16 | $113 | |
| Azithromycin | Generic | 20 | $104 | |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | Generic | 12 | $35 |
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 700 Part D prescribers listed as Plastic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Payments and prescribing
3 products · payments 2024Two 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.
| Product | Paid by | Related payments | Part D claims | Part B services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOTOX |
|
$144 | — | — |
| Xeomin |
|
$91 | — | — |
| DAXXIFY |
|
$20 | — | — |
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.
Records
138 reportedEvery payment, record by record
Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.