Neil Farris
Internal Medicine · Lexington, KYNPI 1053304139
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,719 of the $2,964 with a category attached, or 91.7%. Novo Nordisk AS accounts for 96.7% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,867 and has fallen 98.9% since, to $32 in 2022.
Across 9 payments — averaging $329.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk AS$3K
- Novo Nordisk$97
Across 3,160 payments — averaging $953.89 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.
- Novo Nordisk AS$923K
- AbbVie$602K
- Sanofi US Services Inc.$580K
- Amgen$467K
- Kowa Research Institute, Inc.$340K
- Novartis$52K
- plus $51K from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,71992%
- Food & beverage$1495%
- Education$973%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk AS | 6 | $2,867 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $97 |
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.
- Ozempic$2,660
How this compares
$2,964 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,284 internal medicine providers in Kentucky.
Other internal medicine in Lexington
- David ManninoLexington$168K
- Fadi BachaLexington$31K
- Jad BalloutLexington$30K
- Thomas von UnrugLexington$22K
- Danilo CoralesLexington$17K
- Mohamed TashaniLexington$17K
- Kelli TrentLexington$16K
- Richard BeltLexington$14K
- Coutney SchniedersLexington$12K
- Fares KhaterWhitesburg$412K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.