Vickie Richards
Family · Cheyenne, WYNPI 1528242088
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.5% of the total across 80 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 27 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $484 and has fallen 72.9% since, to $131 in 2024.
Across 80 payments — averaging $17.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$227
- Boehringer Ingelheim$136
- GSK$130
- AstraZeneca$113
- Amgen$78
- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$57
- plus $620 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,33998%
- Education$212%
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(2 entities) | 16 | $227 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 8 | $136 |
| GSK | 7 | $130 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $113 |
| Amgen | 4 | $78 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $57 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $50 |
| Corium, LLC | 3 | $48 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $46 |
| Merck | 3 | $42 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $33 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $31 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 2 | $29 |
| Gilead | 1 | $24 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 1 | $21 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Biogen | 1 | $14 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$1,360 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 284 family providers in Wyoming.
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 | 19 | $27,109 |
| EliquisApixaban | 12 | $10,339 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 84 | $2,902 |
| Pregabalin | 25 | $2,325 |
| Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 13 | $1,628 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 22 | $1,524 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 43 | $1,485 |
| Gabapentin | 40 | $857 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 26 | $790 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 57 | $708 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 29 | $696 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 23 | $557 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 51 | $375 |
| Omeprazole | 24 | $289 |
| Potassium Chloride | 17 | $288 |
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 | $50 | $27,10919 claims |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USABuprenorphine-Naloxone | $21 | $1,62813 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 80th percentile of 284 family providers in Wyoming.
Other family in Cheyenne
- Jill GiranyCheyenne$44K
- Kathryn HeimerCheyenne$5K
- Greta SkagenCheyenne$4K
- Jennifer DavisCheyenne$4K
- Anne BarnesCheyenne$4K
- Katherine BrockCheyenne$3K
- Lana SykesCheyenne$3K
- Sheriedan GrannanCheyenne$3K
- Shala SwarmCheyenne$2K
- Heather RobertsCheyenne$2K
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.