Matthew Wenker
Internal Medicine · Erlanger, KYNPI 1760472617
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $12,413 of the $17,165 with a category attached, or 72.3%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by AstraZeneca at 25.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $9,367 and has fallen 83.1% since, to $1,587 in 2025. Among internal medicine clinicians in KY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 137 payments — averaging $125.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$4K
- Merck$4K
- Modernatx, Inc.$3K
- Eli Lilly$2K
- Vertex$1K
- Novartis$505
- plus $2K from 11 others
Across 5,004 payments — averaging $2567.93 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.
- Modernatx, Inc.$9.3M
- Seqirus USA Inc$810K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$677K
- AstraZeneca$663K
- Eli Lilly$532K
- Regeneron$332K
- plus $566K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$12,41372%
- Food & beverage$4,73628%
- Education$170%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 31 | $4,395 |
| Merck | 27 | $3,735 |
| Modernatx, Inc. | 15 | $3,206 |
| Eli Lilly | 16 | $2,273 |
| Vertex | 9 | $1,434 |
| Novartis | 5 | $505 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 5 | $404 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 5 | $220 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 3 | $204 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $180 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 7 | $158 |
| Amgen | 4 | $127 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $86 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $63 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $23 |
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
$17,165 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,284 internal medicine providers in Kentucky.
Other internal medicine in Erlanger
- Fares KhaterWhitesburg$412K
- Bernard BuchananOwensboro$185K
- David ManninoLexington$168K
- John PeppinCynthiana$108K
- Sanjay KaulBrownsville$69K
- John JonesHazard$63K
- Robert SasserLouisville$62K
- Justin LandeDanville$60K
- Sanjiv GuptaGrayson$49K
- Kelley McIntyreLouisville$48K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.