Has Hugh Loeffler, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $830 in general payments to Hugh Loeffler, MD across 52 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 Hugh Loeffler, MD 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 Hugh Loeffler, MD 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.

Hugh Loeffler, MD

Internal Medicine · Georgetown, KYNPI 1255584223

Payments from drug & device makers

$830in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 52 payments — averaging $15.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

GSK$174
Lilly USA, LLC$96
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$92
Novartis$68
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$53
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$50
plus $296 from 11 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$830100%

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	11	$174
Lilly USA, LLC	6	$96
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	7	$92
Novartis	5	$68
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	3	$53
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$50
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$45
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	2	$36
Amgen	2	$35
Antares Pharma, Inc.	2	$33
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$32
Merck	2	$27
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	1	$21
Astellas Pharma US Inc	1	$20
Novo Nordisk	1	$19
Evoke Pharma, Inc.	1	$15
Pfizer	1	$13

How this compares

$830 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,284 internal medicine providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$21,075

Medicare patients

126

Services billed

196

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
Prochlorperazine Maleate	17	$147
Prednisone	54	$105
Cefdinir	15	$104
Azithromycin	18	$75
Levofloxacin	16	$67
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	18	$55
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	18	$52
Diclofenac Sodium	13	$46
Tramadol Hcl	14	$19

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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