Eric Ping
Acute Care · Huntington, WVNPI 1003832973
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $28,920 of the $35,373 with a category attached, or 81.8%. Saphena Medical, Inc. accounts for 76.7% of it on its own, with 23 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $16,711 and has fallen 80.3% since, to $3,296 in 2025. Among acute care 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 134 payments — averaging $263.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Saphena Medical, Inc.$27K
- Zimmer Biomet$6K
- Endologix LLC$432
- Edwards Lifesciences$333
- Atricure, Inc.$302
- Johnson & Johnson$200
- plus $963 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$28,92082%
- Travel & lodging$7902%
- Food & beverage$2,7048%
- Education$2,9588%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Saphena Medical, Inc. | 3 | $27,138 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 29 | $6,005 |
| Endologix LLC | 18 | $432 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 14 | $333 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 13 | $302 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 9 | $200 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 12 | $188 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $127 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 4 | $87 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $60 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $51 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $50 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $39 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 2 | $35 |
| Merck | 2 | $33 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $26 |
| Corcym Inc | 2 | $24 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $18 |
| Abbott | 1 | $18 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $17 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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
$35,373 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 51 acute care 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Potassium Chloride | 14 | $88 |
| Furosemide | 11 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other acute care in Huntington
- Jessica SparksHuntington$3K
- Heather HoltonHuntington$2K
- Jessica AdkinsHuntington$782
- Jeffrey RoweHuntington$600
- Stephen MethenyHuntington$417
- Suzanne SpoonerHuntington$311
- Kyle RyderHuntington$122
- Anthony HayesHuntington$122
- Brandi WattsHuntington$37
- Ashley DenningHuntington$14
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.