Kayla Meade, APRN
Primary Care · Huntington, WVNPI 1548972508
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,043 of the $2,753 with a category attached, or 74.2%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. at 33.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,423, more than ten times the $13 reported in 2023.
Across 54 payments — averaging $50.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$909
- Medtronic$789
- Boston Scientific$468
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$248
- Curonix LLC$113
- Tersera Therapeutics LLC$72
- plus $153 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$71026%
- Food & beverage$2,04374%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 10 | $909 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $789 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $468 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 16 | $248 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $113 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 4 | $72 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 2 | $71 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $41 |
| Stryker | 1 | $27 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $15 |
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
$2,753 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 43 primary care 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Pregabalin | 170 | $4,354 |
| Gabapentin | 332 | $3,929 |
| Buprenorphine | 17 | $2,982 |
| Lidocaine | 46 | $2,603 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 195 | $1,877 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 130 | $1,328 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 62 | $1,109 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 79 | $952 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 19 | $800 |
| Baclofen | 40 | $650 |
| Nortriptyline Hcl | 12 | $625 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 32 | $545 |
| Methocarbamol | 29 | $326 |
| Methenamine Hippurate | 15 | $274 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 19 | $191 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other primary care in Huntington
- Charles SmithHuntington$1K
- Jennifer ByrdHuntington$29
- Amanda WakimWheeling$169K
- Brenda HashemBerkeley Springs$8K
- Brenda DennisGlen Dale$6K
- Molly WhiteCharleston$5K
- Richard SutherlandMartinsburg$4K
- Crystal Clark-CrookshanksSummersville$3K
- Jessica FrankeGlen Dale$2K
- Jerica BoboRomney$2K
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.