Robert Hull
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Morgantown, WVNPI 1174602924
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,541 of the $3,932 with a category attached, or 64.6%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 48.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,752 and has fallen 98.9% since, to $30 in 2024.
Across 159 payments — averaging $24.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2K
- Boston Scientific$401
- Medtronic$366
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$167
- Amgen$159
- Johnson & Johnson$153
- plus $778 from 13 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $1855.36 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.
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$12K
- Abbott$688
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,39135%
- Food & beverage$2,54165%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 44 | $1,908 |
| Boston Scientific | 27 | $401 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $366 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 11 | $167 |
| Amgen | 10 | $159 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $153 |
| Novartis | 14 | $144 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 15 | $140 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 1 | $118 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 6 | $85 |
| Gilead | 3 | $45 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $38 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $32 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $26 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $24 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $20 |
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.
How this compares
Too few clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in West Virginiato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Morgantown
- Salam SbaityMorgantown$50K
- Latoya Linton-FrazierMorgantown$36K
- Alexey SergeevMorgantown$15K
- Matthew GaskillMorgantown$14K
- Suppiramaniam SreeharikesanMorgantown$14K
- Kenneth JudsonMorgantown$7K
- Stanley SchmidtMorgantown$4K
- George JosephWeirton$97K
- Chafik AssalCharleston$84K
- Khalid AbozguiaHuntington$73K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.