David Dougherty, MD
Infectious Disease · Lexington, KYNPI 1104261445
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $110,883 of the $145,457 with a category attached, or 76.2%. Gilead accounts for 96.0% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $35,560, 2.6 times the $13,870 reported in 2019. Among infectious disease clinicians in KY 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 593 payments — averaging $245.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$140K
- Insmed, Inc.$1K
- Viiv Healthcare Company$936
- Merck$681
- Shionogi Inc$651
- La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$536
- plus $2K from 15 others
Across 87 payments — averaging $4218.76 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Gilead$279K
- GSK$88K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6000%
- Speaking & faculty fees$110,88376%
- Travel & lodging$21,37315%
- Food & beverage$12,3098%
- Education$2920%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 300 | $139,611 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 49 | $1,121 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 57 | $936 |
| Merck | 47 | $681 |
| Shionogi Inc | 23 | $651 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 15 | $536 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 25 | $414 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 21 | $380 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 15 | $255 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 9 | $246 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $123 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $110 |
| Theratechnologies Inc. | 4 | $82 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $74 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 3 | $55 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $44 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $21 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Vyera Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 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
$145,457 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 100 infectious disease providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ArikayceAmikacin Liposomal/Neb.Accessr | 11 | $172,986 |
| OdefseyEmtricitab/Rilpiviri/Tenof Ala | 27 | $96,253 |
| PrezcobixDarunavir/Cobicistat | 12 | $29,546 |
| Daptomycin | 68 | $28,918 |
| ErtapenemErtapenem Sodium | 41 | $28,317 |
| TivicayDolutegravir Sodium | 12 | $27,105 |
| PifeltroDoravirine | 12 | $21,057 |
| Vancomycin Hcl | 36 | $10,107 |
| Meropenem | 17 | $8,525 |
| Itraconazole | 21 | $8,131 |
| Epinephrine | 29 | $7,350 |
| Ampicillin-SulbactamAmpicillin Sod/Sulbactam Sod | 18 | $4,941 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 83 | $4,016 |
| Piperacillin-TazobactamPiperacillin Sodium/Tazobactam | 11 | $4,004 |
| CeftriaxoneCeftriaxone Sodium | 32 | $2,519 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Insmed, Inc.Arikayce | $1,121 | $172,98611 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonPrezcobix | $74 | $29,54612 claims |
| Viiv Healthcare CompanyTivicay | $936 | $27,10512 claims |
| MerckPifeltro | $681 | $21,05712 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 95th percentile of 100 infectious disease providers in Kentucky.
Other infectious disease in Lexington
- Charles RoseLexington$68K
- Marty AllenLexington$40K
- Daniel RodrigueLexington$37K
- John MeekLexington$12K
- Mark DoughertyLexington$12K
- Andrea BanksLexington$11K
- Takako SchaningerLexington$8K
- Andrew AlexanderLexington$7K
- Richard GreenbergLexington$6K
- Elizabeth PiercyLexington$4K
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.