Jeffrey Winebrenner
Internal Medicine · Chesapeake, VANPI 1184695629
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 92 payments — averaging $16.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$272
- Novo Nordisk$207
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$185
- Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$120
- Merck$88
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$80
- plus $605 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,557100%
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 | 17 | $272 |
| Novo Nordisk | 12 | $207 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 13 | $185 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $120 |
| Merck | 5 | $88 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $80 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $75 |
| Novartis | 4 | $67 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $65 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 3 | $61 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $48 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $41 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $37 |
| GSK | 2 | $33 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $27 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 2 | $26 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $16 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Bayer | 1 | $13 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$1,557 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,724 internal medicine providers in Virginia.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Carvedilol | 20 | $513 |
| Pravastatin Sodium | 14 | $405 |
| Alendronate Sodium | 20 | $374 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 29 | $324 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 16 | $267 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 27 | $170 |
| Famotidine | 15 | $115 |
| Metformin Hcl | 12 | $100 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 11 | $79 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 14 | $60 |
| Lisinopril | 12 | $54 |
| Hydrochlorothiazide | 12 | $31 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Chesapeake
- Leroy VaughanRichmond$20.8M
- James ClarkCharlottesville$16.2M
- Nabil AndrawisBurke$8.5M
- Mary BlumbergNorfolk$6.5M
- David RamstadSuffolk$5.8M
- Andrew PoklepovicRichmond$4.6M
- Nashwa GabraBurke$4.3M
- Michael DevittCharlottesville$3.5M
- Richard JacksonRichmond$2.5M
- Sue BrownCharlottesville$2.4M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.