Melissa Conner
Surgical · Parkersburg, WVNPI 1245475714
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,061 of the $1,490 with a category attached, or 71.2%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Getinge USA Sales, LLC at 33.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $512 and has fallen 58.2% since, to $214 in 2025.
Across 49 payments — averaging $30.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$498
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$146
- Novartis$134
- Amgen$110
- Atricure, Inc.$97
- Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$92
- plus $413 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$42929%
- Food & beverage$1,06171%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 3 | $498 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 6 | $146 |
| Novartis | 7 | $134 |
| Amgen | 6 | $110 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 3 | $97 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $92 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $90 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $53 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $49 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $35 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $30 |
| Merck | 2 | $28 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $20 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $19 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $14 |
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
$1,490 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 53 surgical 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.
Other surgical in Parkersburg
- Brook MorganParkersburg$21
- Adam MillerBeckley$7K
- Matthew DincherBeckley$6K
- Wilfrido TolentinoBeckley$6K
- Victoria TakuboSouth Charleston$2K
- Justin MedlinSouth Charleston$2K
- Mark JavinsSouth Charleston$2K
- Nancy BalewskiMorgantown$2K
- Christopher SantangeloHurricane$2K
- Karen FlannaganCharleston$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.