Paula Knight
Family · Follansbee, WVNPI 1508863481
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 352 payments — averaging $18.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$803
- Novo Nordisk$671
- Johnson & Johnson$606
- Boehringer Ingelheim$570
- Amgen$532
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$401
- plus $3K from 33 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,38999%
- Education$891%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 42 | $803 |
| Novo Nordisk | 36 | $671 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 34 | $606 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 33 | $570 |
| Amgen | 27 | $532 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 22 | $401 |
| Merck | 21 | $338 |
| Pfizer | 17 | $296 |
| Novartis | 15 | $225 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $223 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 12 | $218 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 8 | $162 |
| AbbVie | 7 | $129 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 6 | $114 |
| Bayer | 6 | $112 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 6 | $105 |
| GSK | 7 | $102 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 6 | $90 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $83 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 4 | $81 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $80 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $68 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 4 | $64 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 3 | $57 |
| Advanced Respiratory, Inc | 3 | $53 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $33 |
| Abbott | 2 | $30 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $30 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 2 | $29 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 2 | $28 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $20 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $20 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Medicomp Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- FARXIGA$125
- GVOKE HYPOPEN$123
- RYBELSUS$119
How this compares
$6,478 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,507 family 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 | 44 | $46,880 |
| EliquisApixaban | 32 | $20,770 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 14 | $13,507 |
| JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl | 11 | $13,251 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 13 | $9,373 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 15 | $8,735 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 11 | $6,045 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 12 | $5,286 |
| Potassium Chloride | 106 | $1,521 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 149 | $1,248 |
| Topiramate | 12 | $906 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 152 | $872 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 35 | $809 |
| Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 14 | $773 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 79 | $667 |
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 | $671 | $46,88044 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $296 | $20,77032 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $606 | $13,50714 claims |
| MerckJanumet | $338 | $13,25111 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $102 | $9,37313 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $570 | $8,73515 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta | $803 | $5,28612 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $129 | $54212 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 95th percentile of 1,507 family providers in West Virginia.
Other family in Follansbee
- Ashley ComerCharleston$213K
- Dana CruseParkersburg$109K
- Sarah KnightCharleston$99K
- Star RoeBarboursville$55K
- Angela SettleCharleston$51K
- Amber DuncanCross Lanes$44K
- Jennifer FieldsHuntington$32K
- Gina LatheyScott Depot$31K
- Jodi BillerScott Depot$29K
- Misty BareboHuntington$25K
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.