Steven Zeller, MD
Family Medicine · Russellville, KYNPI 1689967259
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 386 payments — averaging $25.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$2K
- AbbVie$1K
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$967
- Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$809
- GSK$756
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$704
- plus $3K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$9,755100%
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 | 29 | $1,592 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 68 | $1,476 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 30 | $967 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 18 | $809 |
| GSK | 40 | $756 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 36 | $704 |
| Novo Nordisk | 32 | $524 |
| Amgen | 21 | $501 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $352 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 9 | $301 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 14 | $282 |
| Pfizer | 12 | $238 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 10 | $161 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 7 | $142 |
| Novartis | 6 | $106 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 5 | $85 |
| Bayer | 4 | $81 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $70 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $70 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 4 | $56 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $55 |
| Merck | 4 | $48 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 3 | $44 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $40 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 2 | $36 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $32 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $32 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Abbott | 1 | $21 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $15 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$9,755 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,559 family medicine providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 81 | $97,409 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 71 | $67,556 |
| EliquisApixaban | 86 | $64,480 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 91 | $62,575 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 34 | $53,452 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 52 | $46,966 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 41 | $35,794 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 43 | $34,524 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 29 | $33,853 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 80 | $33,322 |
| VraylarCariprazine Hcl | 21 | $29,340 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 39 | $26,411 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec | 15 | $24,839 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 35 | $23,337 |
| Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 26 | $20,324 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus | $524 | $115,29296 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Bevespi Aerosphere | $1,592 | $108,712130 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro | $161 | $87,30563 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta | $756 | $86,025135 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $238 | $64,48086 claims |
| MerckJanuvia, Janumet Xr, Dulera | $48 | $58,75479 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Stiolto Respimat, Spiriva Respimat | $32 | $58,60084 claims |
| AbbVieVraylar, Linzess, Synthroid | $1,476 | $58,48295 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $32 | $23,33735 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $70 | $16,86223 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $106 | $11,47517 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. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 1,559 family medicine providers in Kentucky.
Other family medicine in Russellville
- Brian SmithVersailles$7.7M
- Barbara Fleming-PhillipsLexington$1.4M
- Christopher RhyneLouisville$1M
- Kruti PatelBurlington$463K
- Michael LovelaceLouisville$244K
- John RichardLexington$226K
- Diego MastronardiBowling Green$196K
- James TurnboPaducah$124K
- Eleida Tur OlivaLexington$113K
- Jeffrey GreenParis$103K
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.