George Wennerberg, MD
Internal Medicine · Reno, NVNPI 1659666717
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 18 payments — averaging $32.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$175
- Gilead$125
- Novo Nordisk$111
- Corcept Therapeutics$44
- Bayer$41
- Dexcom, Inc.$19
- plus $65 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$581100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $175 |
| Gilead | 1 | $125 |
| Novo Nordisk | 6 | $111 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 2 | $44 |
| Bayer | 2 | $41 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $16 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $14 |
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.
- ANDEXXA$103
How this compares
$581 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,071 internal medicine providers in Nevada.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 26 | $28,635 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 13 | $19,251 |
| DuleraMometasone/Formoterol | 11 | $8,346 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 51 | $1,743 |
| Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 12 | $887 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 51 | $631 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 21 | $594 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 61 | $500 |
| Losartan Potassium | 41 | $455 |
| Gabapentin | 23 | $380 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 11 | $330 |
| Metformin Hcl | 35 | $321 |
| Omeprazole | 14 | $275 |
| Alendronate Sodium | 23 | $272 |
| Lisinopril | 37 | $251 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Reno
- Michael BlochReno$670K
- Steven ZellReno$25K
- Darin BrimhallLas Vegas$39.7M
- Alton WaltersLas Vegas$8.9M
- Michael JacobsLas Vegas$8.1M
- Nirupa PaulrajLas Vegas$5.8M
- Atoya AdamsLas Vegas$5.4M
- Roger EstevezLas Vegas$3.7M
- Syed PervaizLas Vegas$3.1M
- Marigene Salazar SharmaHenderson$2.5M
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.