Has Wesley Kerr, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $54,315 in general payments to Wesley Kerr, MD across 69 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 Wesley Kerr, MD 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 Wesley Kerr, MD 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.

Wesley Kerr, MD

Epilepsy · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1720506272

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $50,312 of the $54,315 with a category attached, or 92.6%. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by SK Life Science, Inc. at 43.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $23,159, more than ten times the $207 reported in 2021. Among epilepsy clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$54,315in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 69 payments — averaging $787.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

SK Life Science, Inc.$24K
Neurelis, Inc.$12K
UCB, Inc.$8K
UCB SA$4K
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$4K
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$2K
plus $1K from 1 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$50,31293%
Speaking & faculty fees$1,0202%
Travel & lodging$1,3322%
Food & beverage$1,6523%

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
SK Life Science, Inc.	41	$23,723
Neurelis, Inc.	6	$12,329
UCB, Inc.	13	$7,542
UCB SA	3	$3,850
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$3,531
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$2,040
Ceribell, Inc.	2	$1,301

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.

XCOPRI$22,988
VALTOCO$12,279
Fintepla$3,964
Rapid Response EEG$1,210
Epidiolex$101

How this compares

$54,315 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 28 epilepsy providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$7,821

Medicare patients

Services billed

104

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
Lacosamide	14	$1,760
Oxcarbazepine	13	$466
Lamotrigine	28	$347
Levetiracetam	16	$314

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other epilepsy in Pittsburgh

Alexandra UrbanPittsburgh$25K
Thandar AungPittsburgh$13K
Rahiwa GebrePittsburgh$4K
James CastellanoPittsburgh$3K
Shobhit SinglaPittsburgh$3K
Joanna Fong-IsariyawongsePittsburgh$1K
Anto BagicPittsburgh$1K
Vijayalakshmi RajasekaranPittsburgh$320
Maria BaldwinPittsburgh$216
Joseph TaPittsburgh$125

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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.

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