John Tellers, MD
Neurology · Wheeling, WVNPI 1881634889
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 93.8% of the total across 25 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 14 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for neurology clinicians in WV, where the typical reported total is $1,217.
Across 25 payments — averaging $23.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lilly USA, LLC$122
- Livanova USA, Inc.$97
- Amgen$67
- Novartis$56
- UCB, Inc.$38
- Acorda Therapeutics, Inc$36
- plus $167 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$366%
- Food & beverage$54794%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $122 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $97 |
| Amgen | 2 | $67 |
| Novartis | 4 | $56 |
| UCB, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Acorda Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $36 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Greenwich Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Biogen | 1 | $22 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $16 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $15 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$583 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 93 neurology 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.
Other neurology in Wheeling
- Stephen TimmsWheeling$4K
- Rebecca BarnesWheeling$3K
- Brenda AdamovichWheeling$2K
- Barry VaughtCrab Orchard$1.4M
- Paul FergusonHuntington$649K
- Umer NajibMorgantown$246K
- Muhammed Nasher-AlneamCharleston$73K
- Robert LewisHurricane$73K
- Lauren SeebergerCharleston$72K
- Cheryl SmithMorgantown$68K
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.