Industry payments to physicians · West Virginia · 2024

West Virginia

In West Virginia, drug and device makers reported $8M in general payments to 5,712 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $1,400 each — plus $9M tied to research and $387,877 in ownership interests.

A payment is a disclosed financial tie, not proof of wrongdoing — many are research grants, consulting fees, or royalties a physician earns on a device they invented. Transparency, not a verdict.

$8M

general payments

5,712

covered recipients paid

$1,400

mean per physician

Top specialties in West Virginia

General payments by specialty; the figure on the right is the average per physician.

Psychiatry $870,430 $11,924/phys

Internal Medicine $745,582 $2,635/phys

Family $538,522 $519/phys

Neurology $506,354 $9,377/phys

Psychiatric/Mental Health $313,095 $3,599/phys

Orthopaedic Surgery $312,081 $4,589/phys

Dermatology $308,186 $11,414/phys

Rheumatology $249,737 $14,690/phys

Family Medicine $247,870 $551/phys

Cardiovascular Disease $235,361 $3,224/phys

Physician Assistant $220,064 $493/phys

Interventional Cardiology $207,978 $5,473/phys

Highest-paid physicians in West Virginia

By total general payments, 2024 — largely device royalties to inventor-physicians.

William Chapman Internal Medicine · Charleston · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $484,826

Jeremy Schreiber Psychiatric/Mental Health · Wheeling · top payer: ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc.) $279,032

Barry Vaught Neurology · Crab Orchard · top payer: ARGENX US, INC. $261,465

Melissa Moody Psychiatry · Charleston · top payer: Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. $229,209

Ryan Wakim Psychiatry · Wheeling · top payer: Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. $191,584

Tejas Joshi Hepatology · Huntington · top payer: Gilead Sciences, Inc. $181,991

Charles Franz Dermatology · Bridgeport · top payer: Janssen Biotech, Inc. $166,753

April Baisden Psychiatry · Scott Depot · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $156,503

Wassim Saikali Rheumatology · Beckley · top payer: Amgen Inc. $129,416

Daniel Thistlethwaite Psychiatry · South Charleston · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $122,137

Timothy Deer Interventional Pain Medicine · Charleston · top payer: Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. $120,803

Rola Gharib Dermatology · Morgantown · top payer: Amgen Inc. $111,504

Sarah Rinehart Cardiovascular Disease · Charleston · top payer: HeartFlow, Inc. $107,852

David Pickering Internal Medicine · Parkersburg · top payer: Lilly USA, LLC $100,982

Suzanne Gharib Rheumatology · South Charleston · top payer: Janssen Biotech, Inc. $99,463

Paul Ferguson Neurology · Huntington · top payer: EMD Serono, Inc. $91,424

Robert Grammer Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Morgantown · top payer: Boston Scientific Corporation $84,229

Matthew Bullock Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Huntington · top payer: Smith+Nephew, Inc. $83,405

Nadim Bou Zgheib Gynecologic Oncology · Huntington · top payer: GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $74,388

Ansaar Rai Unspecified · Morgantown · top payer: Stryker Corporation $73,664

Sohyun Boo Neuroradiology · Morgantown · top payer: MicroVention, Inc. $64,853

Aneel Chowdhary Medical Oncology · Huntington · top payer: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC $63,885

Jennifer Veverka Gastroenterology · Morgantown · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $59,843

Jessica Hott Obstetrics & Gynecology · Martinsburg · top payer: Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $56,738

Chad Lavender Orthopaedic Surgery · Charleston · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $52,979

RECORDED — CMS Open Payments figures for program year 2024. DERIVED — state totals, per-physician means, and rankings are sums over those records.

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What this is — and is not

A disclosure record of industry–physician financial ties in West Virginia — not evidence that any payment influenced care, not a measure of a physician's quality, and not advice about your own doctor. To verify a specific physician, search CMS Open Payments directly.