Raymond Wechman, MD
Family Medicine · Georgetown, KYNPI 1063497113
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 73 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 17 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $473 and has fallen 60.0% since, to $189 in 2022.
Across 73 payments — averaging $17.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$265
- Amgen$152
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$138
- Novartis$96
- Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$84
- Lilly USA, LLC$75
- plus $448 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,257100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 15 | $265 |
| Amgen | 7 | $152 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 10 | $138 |
| Novartis | 6 | $96 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $75 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $70 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $66 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $54 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $47 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $45 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $39 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Merck | 2 | $31 |
| Gilead | 1 | $15 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$1,257 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,559 family medicine providers in Kentucky.
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 family medicine in Georgetown
- Brian AllenGeorgetown$14K
- Henry PrestonGeorgetown$14K
- Todd ReinhartGeorgetown$11K
- Christopher RhyneLouisville$933K
- John RichardLexington$226K
- James TurnboPaducah$124K
- Edward SchumannFlorence$79K
- Ronald KoffNew Castle$71K
- Suraj GathaniLouisville$69K
- Bradley GrayFlorence$51K
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.