Brijinder Kochhar, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Weirton, WVNPI 1235229246
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 12 payments — averaging $14.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$39
- Grifols USA, LLC$31
- AbbVie$25
- Tesaro, Inc.$15
- Foundation Medicine, Inc.$15
- Novartis$14
- plus $39 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$16894%
- Education$126%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 3 | $39 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 2 | $31 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $25 |
| Tesaro, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Foundation Medicine, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Novartis | 1 | $14 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$179 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 89 pulmonary disease 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 |
|---|---|---|
| GlassiaAlpha-1-Proteinase Inhibitor | 12 | $229,850 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 216 | $156,967 |
| Prolastin CAlpha-1-Proteinase Inhibitor | 12 | $118,886 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 257 | $113,654 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 40 | $24,669 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 75 | $18,086 |
| Arnuity ElliptaFluticasone Furoate | 51 | $15,165 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 405 | $10,188 |
| Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 65 | $8,126 |
| Fluticasone-VilanterolFluticasone/Vilanterol | 22 | $7,478 |
| Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 67 | $6,808 |
| Fluticasone Propionate HfaFluticasone Propionate | 13 | $5,386 |
| Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 49 | $3,458 |
| Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 15 | $1,748 |
| AsmanexMometasone Furoate | 11 | $1,474 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Arnuity Ellipta | $39 | $285,786524 claims |
| Grifols USA, LLCProlastin C | $31 | $118,88612 claims |
| AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Symbicort | $12 | $42,754115 claims |
| MerckAsmanex | $13 | $1,47411 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 15th percentile of 89 pulmonary disease providers in West Virginia.
Other pulmonary disease in Weirton
- Maria BoustaniBeckley$663K
- Loay Al AsadiCharleston$461K
- Melvin SaludesGlen Dale$255K
- Amro Al-AstalHuntington$231K
- Roger AbrahamsMorgantown$177K
- Ramzi HaddadinBeckley$43K
- Houssein YounessMartinsburg$31K
- Salam RajjoubBridgeport$29K
- Ronald MudryElkins$23K
- Peter KochupuraMorgantown$22K
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.