John Walker
Family Medicine · Owensboro, KYNPI 1861631947
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 95.3% of the total across 159 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 33 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 159 payments — averaging $15.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$391
- Stryker$171
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$157
- Boehringer Ingelheim$152
- GSK$136
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$126
- plus $1K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,28495%
- Education$1125%
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(2 entities) | 27 | $391 |
| Stryker | 3 | $171 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 22 | $157 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 10 | $152 |
| GSK | 9 | $136 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $126 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 7 | $101 |
| Novo Nordisk | 6 | $97 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 7 | $94 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $91 |
| Amgen | 5 | $81 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $81 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $78 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $73 |
| Merck | 4 | $57 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $53 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Novartis | 2 | $38 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $33 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| OWP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Dynavax Technologies Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Abbott | 1 | $15 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$2,396 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,559 family medicine providers in Kentucky.
Other family medicine in Owensboro
- Rebecca McKindlesOwensboro$11K
- Christopher RhyneLouisville$933K
- John RichardLexington$226K
- James TurnboPaducah$124K
- Edward SchumannFlorence$79K
- Ronald KoffNew Castle$71K
- Suraj GathaniLouisville$69K
- Bradley GrayFlorence$51K
- Jackie KazeeAshland$45K
- Mandy WhittLouisville$38K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.