Richard Hefner, DO
Family Medicine · Crestwood, KYNPI 1639102585
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 161 payments — averaging $18.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$454
- Pfizer$322
- Amgen$304
- AstraZeneca$241
- Novo Nordisk$222
- Tris Pharma Inc$141
- plus $1K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,905100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 27 | $454 |
| Pfizer | 19 | $322 |
| Amgen | 18 | $304 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $241 |
| Novo Nordisk | 15 | $222 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 2 | $141 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 7 | $126 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $121 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $105 |
| GSK | 6 | $84 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $73 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $67 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $49 |
| Abbott | 3 | $46 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $43 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Novartis | 3 | $40 |
| Dynavax Technologies Corporation | 2 | $36 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Merck | 2 | $32 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Vertex | 1 | $21 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $16 |
| Acella Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $12 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $11 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
- Dyanavel XR$125
- Quillivant$125
- Quillichew ER$125
- ELIQUIS$110
How this compares
$2,905 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 40 | $46,724 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 44 | $40,944 |
| Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl | 23 | $26,935 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 23 | $25,023 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 24 | $19,771 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 26 | $18,823 |
| InvokanaCanagliflozin | 22 | $15,162 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 17 | $13,495 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 13 | $12,747 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 14 | $11,610 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 12 | $11,524 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 84 | $5,764 |
| Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 11 | $4,439 |
| Ezetimibe | 119 | $3,413 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 348 | $3,203 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $322 | $46,72440 claims |
| MerckJanumet Xr, Januvia | $32 | $45,75849 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $222 | $40,94444 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto, Invokana | $121 | $34,93346 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $241 | $25,02323 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $105 | $13,49517 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro | $126 | $12,74713 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $73 | $11,61014 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $84 | $11,52412 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $454 | $5,76484 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 75th percentile of 1,559 family medicine providers in Kentucky.
Other family medicine in Crestwood
- Brian SmithVersailles$7.7M
- Barbara Fleming-PhillipsLexington$1.4M
- Christopher RhyneLouisville$1M
- Kruti PatelBurlington$463K
- Michael LovelaceLouisville$244K
- John RichardLexington$226K
- Diego MastronardiBowling Green$196K
- James TurnboPaducah$124K
- Eleida Tur OlivaLexington$113K
- Jeffrey GreenParis$103K
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.