Matthew Schessler, MD
Hand Surgery · Morgantown, WVNPI 1336408590
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 65 payments — averaging $27.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC$545
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$350
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$108
- Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$83
- Axogen$77
- Zimvie Inc.$75
- plus $550 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,25570%
- Education$53430%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC | 2 | $545 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 23 | $350 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $108 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $83 |
| Axogen | 1 | $77 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 2 | $75 |
| Stryker | 1 | $75 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 4 | $70 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $69 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 2 | $63 |
| CSL Behring | 3 | $56 |
| Medartis Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $22 |
| Vertex | 1 | $21 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $16 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
Too few hand surgery providers in West Virginiato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 125 | $333 |
| Methylprednisolone | 32 | $238 |
| Cephalexin | 14 | $131 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Morgantown
- Bonhomme Prud'hommeMorgantown$0
- Aouod AgenorHuntington$16K
- Alan KoesterHuntington$10K
- Mohammad HammadHuntington$3K
- Syed ZahirBeckley$228
- Steven NovotnyHuntington$22
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.