Yancy Short, MD
Surgery · Beckley, WVNPI 1265429831
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Intuitive Surgical accounts for 77.1% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,125 and has fallen 94.2% since, to $65 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery clinicians in WV, where the typical reported total is $1,306.
Across 23 payments — averaging $64.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- Davol Inc.$157
- Stryker$37
- Molli Surgical (US) Inc$31
- Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$23
- Medtronic$22
- plus $69 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$78653%
- Food & beverage$69147%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 11 | $1,139 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $157 |
| Stryker | 3 | $37 |
| Molli Surgical (US) Inc | 1 | $31 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $22 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Merck | 1 | $20 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$1,477 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 162 surgery providers in West Virginia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| LinzessLinaclotide | 21 | $15,755 |
| Omeprazole | 74 | $580 |
| Ursodiol | 11 | $466 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 91 | $372 |
| Sucralfate | 11 | $269 |
| Famotidine | 16 | $200 |
| Esomeprazole Magnesium | 11 | $191 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Beckley
- Brian WhyteBeckley$56K
- Sarah HayekBeckley$44K
- David StuartBeckley$13K
- Sarang KashyapBeckley$12K
- Nicole WhatleyBeckley$10K
- Oluyemisi SangodeyiBeckley$9K
- Justin HavensBeckley$4K
- Courtney PettifordBeckley$3K
- Scott KillmerBeckley$3K
- Darren NeaseCharleston$107K
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.