Linda Kessinger, MD
Family Medicine · Eleanor, WVNPI 1487634275
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 186 payments — averaging $15.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Novo Nordisk$294
- GSK$151
- Pfizer$124
- Biogen$120
- Sage Therapeutics, LLC$118
- plus $1K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,905100%
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) | 92 | $1,032 |
| Novo Nordisk | 11 | $294 |
| GSK | 10 | $151 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $124 |
| Biogen | 1 | $120 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 5 | $118 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 5 | $97 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $88 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 4 | $84 |
| Exact Sciences | 4 | $80 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $76 |
| Echosens North America, Inc. | 1 | $76 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $72 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $67 |
| Amgen | 4 | $63 |
| Novartis | 3 | $47 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Merck | 2 | $30 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $28 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Bayer | 1 | $24 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Organon | 1 | $20 |
| Insulet Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $14 |
| Abbott | 1 | $14 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Corium, LLC | 1 | $8 |
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
$2,905 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 843 family 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 103 | $132,899 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 84 | $71,975 |
| EliquisApixaban | 79 | $63,845 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 53 | $54,072 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 26 | $38,745 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 40 | $35,316 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 31 | $31,191 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 26 | $19,532 |
| Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 13 | $18,383 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 14 | $13,346 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 15 | $11,426 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 11 | $10,441 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 14 | $8,133 |
| Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate | 13 | $7,825 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 34 | $7,259 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $294 | $132,899103 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Combivent Respimat | $88 | $72,33877 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $151 | $71,97584 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro | $72 | $69,93657 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $124 | $63,84579 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $30 | $35,31640 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort, Brilinta | $28 | $30,57759 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $47 | $13,34614 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $67 | $11,42615 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $1,032 | $2,01129 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 80th percentile of 843 family medicine providers in West Virginia.
Other family medicine in Eleanor
- Wilbur SineMorgantown$179K
- Dorian WilliamsMorgantown$169K
- Julie DetempleSouth Charleston$129K
- Clemente DiazRichwood$127K
- John CornellHuntington$94K
- Mark CucuzzellaHarpers Ferry$59K
- Courtney PilkertonMorgantown$45K
- Isha WoofterClarksburg$27K
- Dominick WoofterClarksburg$27K
- Ryan RunyonPrinceton$21K
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.