RxDoctor Payments Data

Kathryn Moffett

Pediatric Infectious Diseases · Morgantown, WVNPI 1023132750

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $6,839 of the $7,713 with a category attached, or 88.7%. Merck accounts for 78.3% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $6,133 and has fallen 99.7% since, to $18 in 2025.

$7,713in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 33 payments — averaging $233.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merck$6K
  • Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$1K
  • Vertex$138
  • Insmed, Inc.$95
  • Amgen$34
  • Advanced Respiratory, Inc$20
  • plus $18 from 1 others
$482,172in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 103 payments — averaging $4681.28 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Vertex$354K
  • Merck$52K
  • Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$32K
  • Janssen Research & Development, LLC$21K
  • Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$11K
  • Gilead$7K
  • plus $5K from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$6,83989%
  • Food & beverage$87411%

General payments by program year

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20
21
22
25

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Merck14$6,037
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.12$1,371
Vertex2$138
Insmed, Inc.1$95
Amgen1$34
Advanced Respiratory, Inc2$20
Digestive Care, Inc.1$18

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

Too few pediatric infectious diseases providers in West Virginiato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Other pediatric infectious diseases in Morgantown

Where these figures come from

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