Kevin Blankenship, MD
Emergency Medicine · Morgantown, WVNPI 1003815515
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $118 of the $145 with a category attached, or 81.2%. AbbVie accounts for 62.7% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 4 payments — averaging $36.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$91
- Alkermes, Inc.$27
- AstraZeneca$13
- Teleflex LLC$13
Across 40 payments — averaging $8109.06 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.
- Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.$298K
- GSK$27K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$11881%
- Education$2719%
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 | 1 | $91 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $13 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$145 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 367 emergency medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisone | 17 | $57 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other emergency medicine in Morgantown
- Joseph MinardiMorgantown$35K
- Benjamin SilverbergMorgantown$7K
- Christopher GoodeMorgantown$947
- Sarah RamsayMorgantown$571
- Kevin MaceMorgantown$336
- Kyle HurstMorgantown$328
- Anna ScottMorgantown$313
- Scott BensonMorgantown$289
- Andrew VucelikMorgantown$268
- Christopher EdwardsMorgantown$250
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.