Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Lester Labus

Family Medicine Charleston, WV Medical Doctor

NPI 1235124413 CMS profile 146070

500 Donnally St Ste 203, Charleston, WV 25301

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General payments

$5,440

310 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Lester Labus of Charleston, WV is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $5,440 across 310 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 90th percentile of Family Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,318 63
2024 General $886 46
2023 General $455 24
2022 General $1,030 62
2021 General $972 59
2020 General $172 12
2019 General $607 44

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Lester Labus
  • Family Medicine median
  • Middle half of Family Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Lester Labus were reported at $1,318. Among 56,786 Family Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $155 and the middle half received between $45 and $549.

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Year Lester Labus Family Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $607 $150 $41–$543 $163
2020 $172 $120 $32–$415 $114
2021 $972 $137 $35–$551 $132
2022 $1,030 $137 $37–$512 $149
2023 $455 $149 $42–$545 $160
2024 $886 $156 $44–$560 $164
2025 $1,318 $155 $45–$549 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Pfizer Inc. $1,331 76 payments
  2. Novo Nordisk Inc $883 52 payments
  3. AbbVie, Inc. $564 28 payments
  4. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $399 28 payments
  5. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $387 24 payments
  6. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $265 17 payments
  7. Abbott Laboratories $247 12 payments
  8. Dexcom, Inc. $118 6 payments
  9. Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $113 8 payments
  10. Lilly USA, LLC $102 4 payments
  11. Other $1,032 55 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $5,440 310 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. ELIQUIS $1,155 64 payments
  2. NURTEC ODT $484 23 payments
  3. Ozempic $472 29 payments
  4. UBRELVY $394 17 payments
  5. RYBELSUS $359 24 payments
  6. TRELEGY ELLIPTA $309 21 payments
  7. ENTRESTO $306 20 payments
  8. Wegovy $225 11 payments
  9. PAXLOVID $187 8 payments
  10. FreeStyle Libre $176 9 payments
  11. Other $2,934 174 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 157 drugs

Part D claims

11,232

Median for Family Practice: 1,826

Drug cost

$676,129

Median for Family Practice: $120,094

Branded share of claims

22.6%

Median for Family Practice: 18.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 125 $131,970
Ozempic Semaglutide Brand 86 $90,617
Mounjaro Tirzepatide Brand 50 $69,460
Januvia Sitagliptin Phosphate Brand 46 $52,360
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 29 $35,008
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 23 $33,776
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 17 $25,247
Toujeo Max Solostar Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog Brand 12 $15,033
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 530 $12,934
Linzess Linaclotide Brand 13 $11,613

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 157 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 105,120 Part D prescribers listed as Family Practice; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 22 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$48,206

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

274

Average age 75

Services billed

1,210

143 women, 131 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 47%
Ischemic heart disease 29%
Diabetes 27%
Chronic kidney disease 22%
Atrial fibrillation 16%
Depression 16%
Cancer 15%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 26 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
ELIQUIS
  • PFIZER INC. $86
$86 125 —
NURTEC ODT
  • PFIZER INC. $86
$86 — —
AIRSUPRA
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $77
$77 — —
YUPELRI
  • Mylan Specialty L.P. $51
$51 — —
LEQVIO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $48
$48 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

310 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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