Shana Hughes
General Practice · Russell Springs, KYNPI 1881981454
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $79,824 of the $85,319 with a category attached, or 93.6%. AbbVie accounts for 94.2% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $32,195 and has fallen 82.1% since, to $5,765 in 2025. Among general practice clinicians in KY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 248 payments — averaging $344.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$80K
- Dentsply Sirona Inc$3K
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$1K
- Patterson Companies, Inc.$380
- Straumann USA LLC$63
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,0001%
- Speaking & faculty fees$79,82494%
- Travel & lodging$2300%
- Food & beverage$4,0635%
- Gifts$630%
- Other$1380%
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) | 212 | $80,408 |
| Dentsply Sirona Inc | 7 | $3,400 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 24 | $1,068 |
| Patterson Companies, Inc. | 4 | $380 |
| Straumann USA LLC | 1 | $63 |
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
$85,319 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,155 general practice providers in Kentucky.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Amoxicillin | 12 | $23 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other general practice in Russell Springs
- Eric SchneebergerWarsaw$539K
- Stephen SterlitzLexington$263K
- Ryan LewisFrankfort$190K
- Jerome WellbrockCovington$173K
- Bryan HarrisLouisville$53K
- Bach NguyenUnion$31K
- Ryan GolibersuchLexington$23K
- Mary ShieldsLouisville$21K
- Beatrice NewellStanton$20K
- Bradley HarmonLouisville$17K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.