CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
West Virginia
West Virginia received $8,304,812.36 in pharmaceutical-industry payments to 3,850 physicians and 8 teaching hospitals across 100,391 transactions.
- $8.3M
- Total payments
- $6.4M
- To physicians
- $464.7K
- To teaching hospitals
- #41
- of 59 states
In CMS Open Payments Program Year 2024, pharmaceutical and medical-device companies reported $8.3M in payments to 3,850 physicians and 8 teaching hospitals in West Virginia. That ranks West Virginia #41 of 59 states and territories (0.1% of the US total), averaging $1.7K per physician. Figures are company-reported under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act; a reported payment is a financial relationship, not evidence of wrongdoing.
The verdict
West Virginia pairs below-median payment volume with a physician-heavy payment mix.
- #41
- of 59 states
- 0.1%
- of the national total
- 77.1%
- to physicians vs. hospitals
- 3,850
- physicians paid
What the Data Shows for West Virginia
West Virginia sits in the lower-volume tercile at #41 of 59 (0.1% of US dollars). The PY2024 file still records $8,304,812.36 across 100,391 transactions.
Physician versus hospital mix is near the corpus middle (77.1% / 5.6%). Average transaction $82.72. Leading nature of payment: "Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting" at $3.1M (37.2% of the state file; top-three natures 76.4%).
West Virginia sits in the 32nd percentile (lower-volume tier). Just above: Nebraska ($9.3M). Just below: Rhode Island ($8.0M). For context: top-ranked California ($342.4M) is 41.2× larger than West Virginia. CMS Sunshine Act framework and methodology.
Physician vs Hospital Payments
How pharmaceutical payments in West Virginia are distributed between physicians and teaching hospitals.
Physician Payments
$6.4M
77.1% of total · 3,850 recipients · $1.7K avg
Teaching Hospital Payments
$464.7K
5.6% of total · 8 hospitals · $58.1K avg
Payment Breakdown by Type
West Virginia has 15 types of pharmaceutical payments. "Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting" accounts for 37.2%.
Nature concentration in West Virginia
Top three Open Payments natures are 76.4% of state dollars; residual is every other reported nature
Payment categories in West Virginia
Top categories by total reported dollar volume
| Payment Type | Amount | Transactions | % of State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting | $3.1M | 1,222 | 37.2% |
| Food and Beverage | $2.3M | 94,094 | 27.4% |
| Consulting Fee | $980.2K | 554 | 11.8% |
| Travel and Lodging | $939.8K | 3,164 | 11.3% |
| Education | $301.4K | 957 | 3.6% |
| Long-Term Medical Supply or Device Loan | $255.3K | 61 | 3.1% |
| Grant | $107.9K | 26 | 1.3% |
| Compensation for Faculty or Speaker (Medical Education) | $103.0K | 62 | 1.2% |
| Debt Forgiveness | $92.6K | 23 | 1.1% |
| Space Rental or Facility Fees | $53.2K | 12 | 0.6% |
| Honoraria | $46.4K | 41 | 0.6% |
| Royalty or License | $26.4K | 14 | 0.3% |
| Gift | $23.3K | 141 | 0.3% |
| Charitable Contribution | $13.4K | 7 | 0.2% |
| Entertainment | $309.83 | 13 | 0.0% |
Read with this West Virginia Open Payments read
Volume neighbors, physician-share peers, and the national nature catalog, not the same three guides on every state page.
- Next higher total: Nebraska ($9.3M)
- Next lower total: Rhode Island ($8.0M)
- Nearest physician-share mix: Armed Forces Americas (76.6% to physicians)
- Nearest physician-share mix: District of Columbia (77.7% to physicians)
- Nearest physician-share mix: Nebraska (76.4% to physicians)
- National catalog for leading nature here: Compensation for Services Other Th… (37.2% of West Virginia)
- State payment rankings (includes West Virginia at #41)
- How Open Payments natures are defined
Data Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments, Program Year 2024. Data includes general payments, research payments, and physician ownership/investment interests as required by the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Total industry payments: $13.9B across 1,925 companies.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Source: CMS Open Payments Database Industry payments to physicians and teaching hospitals · 2024
What West Virginia totals can and cannot tell you
The aggregate payment figure for West Virginia measures reportable industry–physician engagement inside this state's geographic footprint for Program Year 2024, not any one physician's or hospital's relationship with industry. CMS collects the data under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act; manufacturers must report transfers of value above the de minimis threshold. The file does not capture DTC advertising, internal R&D, wholesale drug pricing, or salary support that is not a reportable transfer of value.
Correlations between payment receipt and prescribing appear in peer-reviewed work for specific drugs and specialties, but this page's state total does not establish causation. Open the company and recipient detail pages for category and year-over-year cuts.
Every figure on PlainPharmaWatch is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-07-26.