Alexander Epperly, PA
Physician Assistant · South Charleston, WVNPI 1285993519
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (54.4%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 56.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $9,800, 3.7 times the $2,672 reported in 2021. Among physician assistant clinicians in WV 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 482 payments — averaging $43.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$12K
- Sanofi$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Amgen$1K
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$989
- Novartis$979
- plus $3K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,1636%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,60031%
- Travel & lodging$1,2756%
- Food & beverage$11,47854%
- Education$5933%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 148 | $11,861 |
| Sanofi | 12 | $1,632 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 72 | $1,568 |
| Amgen | 36 | $1,047 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 32 | $989 |
| Novartis | 52 | $979 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 5 | $486 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 26 | $449 |
| UCB, Inc. | 20 | $433 |
| Pfizer | 16 | $328 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 16 | $284 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 13 | $258 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 6 | $184 |
| Incyte Corporation | 7 | $127 |
| Regeneron | 2 | $124 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 5 | $117 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $67 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Merck | 1 | $21 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Organon | 1 | $6 |
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.
How this compares
$21,109 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 833 physician assistant providers in West Virginia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ketoconazole | 403 | $7,051 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 122 | $3,956 |
| Metronidazole | 35 | $2,786 |
| Fluorouracil | 37 | $2,576 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 209 | $2,403 |
| Tretinoin | 23 | $1,711 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 71 | $1,397 |
| Mupirocin | 114 | $896 |
| Azelaic Acid | 11 | $848 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 21 | $703 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 43 | $606 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 24 | $478 |
| Hydrocortisone | 74 | $379 |
| Nystatin | 22 | $333 |
| Imiquimod | 12 | $217 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in South Charleston
- Kelley WhoolerySouth Charleston$17K
- Erik AndersonSouth Charleston$11K
- Gregory PorterSouth Charleston$11K
- Alexa FruthSouth Charleston$7K
- Ricky McDanielsSouth Charleston$5K
- Keaton MooreSouth Charleston$5K
- Natalie BeesonSouth Charleston$4K
- Amy ButtsWellsburg$258K
- Jordan BrewerMorgantown$15K
- Tasha ElswickWinfield$14K
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.