Travis Bessell, PA
Medical · New Castle, PANPI 1447571302
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 353 payments — averaging $18.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$1K
- Pfizer$855
- AbbVie$807
- Lilly USA, LLC$561
- Amgen$486
- GSK$379
- plus $2K from 33 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,35198%
- Education$992%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 62 | $1,205 |
| Pfizer | 60 | $855 |
| AbbVie | 44 | $807 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 30 | $561 |
| Amgen | 26 | $486 |
| GSK | 20 | $379 |
| AstraZeneca | 14 | $250 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 6 | $177 |
| Exact Sciences | 6 | $176 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 8 | $146 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 6 | $130 |
| Merck | 7 | $123 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $110 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $96 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $87 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 4 | $73 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $73 |
| Bayer | 4 | $69 |
| Abbott | 4 | $68 |
| Novartis | 4 | $68 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 4 | $63 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 2 | $48 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $37 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $32 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $22 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Daiichi Sankyo 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
$6,450 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,594 medical providers in Pennsylvania.
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 | 58 | $95,148 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 62 | $62,021 |
| EliquisApixaban | 71 | $60,198 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 61 | $53,135 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec | 16 | $50,925 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 39 | $44,684 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 38 | $34,833 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 23 | $24,475 |
| Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 12 | $19,404 |
| SynjardyEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl | 14 | $15,227 |
| GlyxambiEmpagliflozin/Linagliptin | 11 | $13,452 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 13 | $9,366 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 13 | $8,591 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 11 | $6,787 |
| Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 12 | $6,741 |
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 | $1,205 | $95,14858 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Synjardy, Glyxambi | $146 | $81,81486 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $123 | $62,02162 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $855 | $60,19871 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $250 | $44,68439 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $379 | $34,83338 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro | $561 | $24,47523 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $68 | $9,36613 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $32 | $8,59113 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid | $807 | $7,49038 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $177 | $6,78711 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 2,594 medical providers in Pennsylvania.
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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.