Sarah Rothberg
Internal Medicine · Charleston, WVNPI 1801982095
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 122 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 21.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $886 and has fallen 73.7% since, to $233 in 2025.
Across 122 payments — averaging $26.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$696
- Vifor Pharma, Inc.$500
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$476
- AstraZeneca$408
- Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$227
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$127
- plus $759 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,193100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen(2 entities) | 25 | $696 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 25 | $500 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 23 | $476 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 16 | $408 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 14 | $227 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 5 | $127 |
| Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $125 |
| Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $74 |
| GSK | 2 | $54 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Novartis | 2 | $38 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $24 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $16 |
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
$3,193 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 573 internal medicine providers in West Virginia.
Other internal medicine in Charleston
- William ChapmanCharleston$1.7M
- Phillip TriplettCharleston$17K
- Roy BowdenCharleston$14K
- Richard CapitoCharleston$11K
- Ghali Ibrahim-BachaCharleston$9K
- Jack KinderCharleston$8K
- Bradley HenryCharleston$8K
- Brijal PatelCharleston$8K
- William JeffreyCharleston$7K
- Said HajouliCharleston$7K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.