Wesley Chou, MD
Neurology · Bowling Green, KYNPI 1841294717
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,600 payments — averaging $16.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biogen$3K
- UCB, Inc.$2K
- AbbVie$2K
- Amgen$1K
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$1K
- Novartis$1K
- plus $16K from 54 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2661%
- Food & beverage$26,02398%
- Education$3851%
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.
- GOCOVRI$380
- VNS Therapy$266
- OCTAGAM IMMUNE GLOBULIN (HUMAN)$147
- XYWAV$147
How this compares
$26,674 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 210 neurology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| VumerityDiroximel Fumarate | 13 | $112,061 |
| UbrelvyUbrogepant | 100 | $91,704 |
| QuliptaAtogepant | 67 | $91,471 |
| Ajovy AutoinjectorFremanezumab-Vfrm | 51 | $49,511 |
| Nurtec OdtRimegepant Sulfate | 38 | $39,761 |
| Aimovig AutoinjectorErenumab-Aooe | 30 | $36,791 |
| AptiomEslicarbazepine Acetate | 19 | $27,549 |
| RytaryCarbidopa/Levodopa | 61 | $27,339 |
| NuedextaDextromethorphan Hbr/Quinidine | 15 | $23,966 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 34 | $23,550 |
| FycompaPerampanel | 13 | $16,449 |
| QuviviqDaridorexant Hcl | 22 | $10,418 |
| SunosiSolriamfetol Hcl | 11 | $9,441 |
| Ajovy SyringeFremanezumab-Vfrm | 12 | $8,646 |
| Lacosamide | 38 | $8,081 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieUbrelvy, Qulipta | $1,698 | $183,175167 claims |
| BiogenVumerity | $2,782 | $112,06113 claims |
| PfizerNurtec Odt | $1,104 | $39,76138 claims |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCRytary, Pyridostigmine Bromide | $126 | $35,10491 claims |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.Aptiom | $427 | $27,54919 claims |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Nuedexta | $256 | $23,96615 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta | $668 | $23,55034 claims |
| Eisai Inc.Fycompa | $461 | $16,44913 claims |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US IncQuviviq | $20 | $10,41822 claims |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.Sunosi | $64 | $9,44111 claims |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLCTopiramate | $140 | $1,897122 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 75th percentile of 210 neurology providers in Kentucky.
Other neurology in Bowling Green
- Jianhua ZhuBowling Green$30K
- Eme IgbokweBowling Green$28K
- Jae Eun LeeBowling Green$18K
- James MaynardFort Thomas$12.4M
- Gregory JichaLexington$7.1M
- Irene LitvanLouisville$2.7M
- Jenny FengLouisville$2M
- James WinkleyLexington$1.9M
- John SlevinLexington$984K
- Nicole EvermanLexington$834K
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.