Stephanie le, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Weirton, WVNPI 1326023888
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.8% of the total across 577 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 36 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,904 and has fallen 64.5% since, to $677 in 2025.
Across 577 payments — averaging $15.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$1K
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$1K
- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$941
- AbbVie$939
- Abbott$650
- Pfizer$426
- plus $3K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$8,985100%
- Education$210%
- Gifts$00%
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.
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.
- NURTEC ODT$105
How this compares
Too few interventional pain medicine providers in West Virginiato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nucynta ErTapentadol Hcl | 88 | $125,844 |
| RelistorMethylnaltrexone Bromide | 41 | $93,823 |
| Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate | 138 | $80,067 |
| NucyntaTapentadol Hcl | 49 | $43,062 |
| Levorphanol Tartrate | 12 | $32,439 |
| OxycontinOxycodone Hcl | 37 | $17,030 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 957 | $15,490 |
| Oxymorphone Hcl ErOxymorphone Hcl | 24 | $15,309 |
| Buprenorphine | 61 | $14,606 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 835 | $13,736 |
| Fentanyl | 130 | $10,825 |
| Gabapentin | 957 | $9,754 |
| ZtlidoLidocaine | 18 | $8,049 |
| Hydromorphone ErHydromorphone Hcl | 11 | $7,951 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 171 | $7,319 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Nucynta Er, Xtampza Er, Nucynta | $1,296 | $248,973275 claims |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCRelistor | $1,454 | $93,82341 claims |
| Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLCLevorphanol Tartrate | $382 | $32,43912 claims |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USABuprenorphine | $21 | $14,60661 claims |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Ztlido | $941 | $8,04918 claims |
| PfizerLyrica | $426 | $3,64713 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. There are too few interventional pain medicine providers in West Virginiaon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other interventional pain medicine in Weirton
- Timothy DeerCharleston$3.4M
- Christopher KimCharleston$108K
- Rudy MalayilHuntington$104K
- Andrew ThymiusBeckley$9K
- Raymond GreaserWheeling$9K
- Corinne Layne StuartBridgeport$8K
- Luay MradParkersburg$8K
- Anuj ShahCharleston$7K
- George van OstenMartinsburg$145
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.