Has David Hess received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $19,668 in general payments to David Hess across 835 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean David Hess did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about David Hess come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

David Hess

Family Medicine · Bridgeport, WVNPI 1740275676

Payments from drug & device makers

$19,668in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 835 payments — averaging $23.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$3K
AstraZeneca$2K
Novo Nordisk$1K
Amgen$1K
Johnson & Johnson$1K
Novartis$1K
plus $9K from 37 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$9245%
Food & beverage$18,65195%
Education$920%

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(2 entities)	168	$3,191
AstraZeneca	76	$1,933
Novo Nordisk	65	$1,500
Amgen(2 entities)	63	$1,454
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	29	$1,077
Novartis	10	$1,075
Boehringer Ingelheim	43	$928
Lilly USA, LLC	44	$767
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	63	$737
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	18	$694
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	48	$623
GSK	12	$604
Merck	31	$512
Abbott	12	$509
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	20	$419
Insulet Corporation	4	$413
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	22	$357
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	14	$354
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	23	$328
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	3	$301
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC	5	$271
Bayer	10	$253
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	7	$236
Sanofi	1	$125
Cvrx, Inc.	1	$114
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$107
Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$102
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	7	$101
Insmed, Inc.	1	$95
Redhill Biopharma Inc.	6	$84
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	5	$69
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	3	$51
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$46
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$35
Eisai Inc.	2	$34
Pfizer	2	$28
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	2	$27
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$26
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA	1	$21
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$19
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$19
Biogen	1	$16
IBSA Pharma Inc.	1	$15

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

$19,668 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 843 family medicine providers in West Virginia.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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