Bairava Kuppuswamy, MD
Internal Medicine · Parkersburg, WVNPI 1205934023
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 185 payments — averaging $15.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Organogenesis Inc.$413
- Smith+Nephew$280
- Novo Nordisk$224
- Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$219
- Misonix Inc$185
- AstraZeneca$169
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$803%
- Food & beverage$2,80797%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Organogenesis Inc. | 34 | $413 |
| Smith+Nephew | 22 | $280 |
| Novo Nordisk | 16 | $224 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 15 | $219 |
| Misonix Inc | 9 | $185 |
| AstraZeneca | 11 | $169 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 9 | $167 |
| Novartis | 12 | $142 |
| Recor Medical Inc | 1 | $125 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $121 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 7 | $119 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $118 |
| Merck | 6 | $82 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $73 |
| GSK | 5 | $71 |
| Philips North America LLC | 4 | $66 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 4 | $60 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $54 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 3 | $49 |
| Amgen | 3 | $43 |
| ETS Wound Care LLC | 1 | $26 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $17 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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
$2,887 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 573 internal medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 191 | $225,892 |
| EliquisApixaban | 201 | $220,012 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 114 | $121,161 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 97 | $107,357 |
| XifaxanRifaximin | 13 | $49,091 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 49 | $48,260 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 39 | $39,811 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 34 | $39,416 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 29 | $34,582 |
| JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl | 21 | $28,609 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 21 | $21,218 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 15 | $20,927 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 119 | $20,839 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 33 | $18,041 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 39 | $16,387 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Levemir | $224 | $230,279203 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $54 | $220,012201 claims |
| MerckJanuvia, Janumet, Janumet Xr | $82 | $163,093148 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta | $17 | $128,283112 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort, Brilinta | $169 | $75,571105 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta | $71 | $57,85272 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro | $118 | $50,46742 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $167 | $39,41634 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid | $119 | $25,13974 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 573 internal medicine providers in West Virginia.
Other internal medicine in Parkersburg
- David PickeringParkersburg$694K
- Orton ArmstrongParkersburg$9K
- Jennifer LeavittParkersburg$8K
- William TomlinsonParkersburg$7K
- Joan AllmanParkersburg$5K
- Ward PaineMorgantown$5.1M
- William ChapmanCharleston$1.7M
- Mustafa AwiliHuntington$906K
- Laura DavissonMorgantown$118K
- Michael BrumageClendenin$87K
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.