Ricky Houdersheldt
Internal Medicine · Hurricane, WVNPI 1457306300
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.6% of the total across 228 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 26 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 228 payments — averaging $13.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$633
- Abbott$306
- Pfizer$232
- Novo Nordisk$196
- AbbVie$189
- Boehringer Ingelheim$175
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,047100%
- Education$130%
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 | 36 | $633 |
| Abbott | 18 | $306 |
| Pfizer | 24 | $232 |
| Novo Nordisk | 16 | $196 |
| AbbVie | 20 | $189 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 14 | $175 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 15 | $158 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 16 | $154 |
| Amgen | 9 | $122 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 8 | $120 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 7 | $102 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $92 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 5 | $85 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 6 | $83 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $69 |
| Novartis | 4 | $56 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $56 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $55 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 2 | $34 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Merck | 2 | $25 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Astellas Pharma US 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.
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$131
- SYMBICORT$103
- FARXIGA$103
- MOVANTIK$103
How this compares
$3,060 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 573 internal medicine providers in West Virginia.
Other internal medicine in Hurricane
- Christopher SkaggsHurricane$13K
- William ChapmanCharleston$1.7M
- David PickeringParkersburg$599K
- Govind PatelFairmont$59K
- Bisher MustafaHuntington$28K
- Johny AlencherryMartinsburg$27K
- Ali KhanBuckhannon$21K
- Joseph HashemBerkeley Springs$21K
- David PatickHuntington$18K
- Phillip TriplettCharleston$17K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.