Has Tonya Kallmeyer received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,424 in general payments to Tonya Kallmeyer across 143 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Tonya Kallmeyer did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Tonya Kallmeyer come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Tonya Kallmeyer

Physician Assistant · Newport, KYNPI 1952689580

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,424in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 143 payments — averaging $30.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$1K
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$569
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$437
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$430
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$400
Lundbeck LLC$275
plus $1K from 10 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$4,37799%
Education$471%

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
AbbVie	59	$1,289
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	6	$569
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	9	$437
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	14	$430
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	12	$400
Lundbeck LLC	13	$275
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	11	$194
Alkermes, Inc.	5	$186
Johnson & Johnson	2	$167
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$122
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$116
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	1	$89
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	5	$73
Alfasigma USA, Inc.	2	$43
Sage Therapeutics, LLC	1	$23
Noven Therapeutics, LLC	1	$11

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

$4,424 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,448 physician assistant providers in Kentucky.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Aripiprazole	19	$2,326
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl	26	$1,080
Buspirone Hcl	47	$1,018
Paroxetine Hcl	36	$415
Hydroxyzine Hcl	14	$382
Fluoxetine Hcl	11	$342
Prazosin Hcl	13	$234
Trazodone Hcl	29	$220
Duloxetine Hcl	13	$152
Escitalopram Oxalate	19	$143
Risperidone	20	$130

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other physician assistant in Newport

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Lauren MeadeLexington$656K
Melissa DavisLouisville$362K
Kara MuddLouisville$98K
Seth KingBowling Green$91K
Marty MullinsHazard$63K
Lauri GarnerVersailles$33K
Robert TatumLouisville$29K
Michelle JonesLexington$29K
Grace IsaacsLouisville$28K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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