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

Wendell Helveston

Neurology Jackson, MS Medical Doctor

NPI 1881607158 CMS profile 266896

1190 N State St Ste 300, Jackson, MS 39202

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General payments

$883,254

2,486 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$940

Paid to them · 1 record reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Wendell Helveston of Jackson, MS is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $883,254 across 2,486 general payments and $940 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 99th percentile of Neurology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

8 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $173,170 482
2024 General $187,257 461
2023 General $90,781 332
2023 Research $940 1
2022 General $99,441 330
2021 General $127,863 326
2020 General $108,365 235
2019 General $96,375 320

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Wendell Helveston
  • Neurology median
  • Middle half of Neurology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Wendell Helveston were reported at $173,170. Among 11,022 Neurology profiles paid that year, the median was $457 and the middle half received between $118 and $2,344.

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Year Wendell Helveston Neurology median Middle half National median
2019 $96,375 $474 $118–$2,177 $163
2020 $108,365 $367 $82–$2,309 $114
2021 $127,863 $438 $104–$2,547 $132
2022 $99,441 $442 $103–$2,388 $149
2023 $90,781 $464 $119–$2,312 $160
2024 $187,257 $468 $119–$2,323 $164
2025 $173,170 $457 $118–$2,344 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Eisai Inc. $207,026 284 payments
  2. AbbVie, Inc. $128,572 273 payments
  3. Biogen, Inc. $81,560 131 payments
  4. Amgen Inc. $69,049 108 payments
  5. Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. $64,722 94 payments
  6. SK Life Science, Inc. $62,393 129 payments
  7. Lundbeck LLC $60,573 128 payments
  8. Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $43,403 75 payments
  9. Allergan Inc. $40,287 86 payments
  10. UCB, Inc. $27,705 98 payments
  11. Other $97,964 1,080 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $455,341 214 payments
  2. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program $149,188 95 payments
  3. Honoraria $97,983 47 payments
  4. Consulting Fee $91,674 84 payments
  5. Travel and Lodging $47,332 264 payments
  6. Food and Beverage $41,249 1,765 payments
  7. Education $488 17 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Leqembi $204,355 256 payments
  2. UBRELVY Neuroscience $109,542 168 payments
  3. Epidiolex $80,306 140 payments
  4. AIMOVIG $69,160 121 payments
  5. XCOPRI $60,941 63 payments
  6. QULIPTA $56,894 129 payments
  7. NURTEC ODT $54,774 113 payments
  8. UBRELVY Neuroscience $34,329 58 payments
  9. VYEPTI Neurology $32,223 35 payments
  10. VYEPTI Neurology $27,307 81 payments
  11. Other $159,631 1,420 payments

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

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Pfizer Inc. $940 1 payment

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 85 drugs

Part D claims

6,581

Median for Neurology: 833

Drug cost

$2,679,144

Median for Neurology: $202,670

Branded share of claims

32.7%

Median for Neurology: 25.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Nuplazid Pimavanserin Tartrate Brand 147 $739,391
Epidiolex Cannabidiol (Cbd) Brand 74 $403,599
Xcopri Cenobamate Brand 165 $256,138
Ingrezza Valbenazine Tosylate Brand 15 $180,302
Nurtec Odt Rimegepant Sulfate Brand 102 $123,061
Gammaked Immune Globul G/Gly/Iga Avg 46 Brand 21 $114,826
Ubrelvy Ubrogepant Brand 96 $107,850
Qulipta Atogepant Brand 71 $92,658
Zonegran Zonisamide Brand 14 $83,151
Fycompa Perampanel Brand 46 $59,304

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 85 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 13,695 Part D prescribers listed as Neurology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 83 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$2,665,005

Of which drugs: $2,391,239

Medicare patients

888

Average age 72

Services billed

515,597

478 women, 410 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 58%
Ischemic heart disease 40%
Depression 39%
Diabetes 33%
Alzheimer's or dementia 26%
Chronic kidney disease 25%
COPD 19%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, immune globulin (privigen), intravenous, non-lyophilized (e.g., liquid), 500 mg J1459 Office 15 18,080 $684,395
Injection, lecanemab-irmb, 1 mg J0174 Office 54 425,800 $445,429
Injection, eptinezumab-jjmr, 1 mg J3032 Office 15 7,700 $100,028
Injection, onabotulinumtoxina, 1 unit J0585 Office 23 13,800 $64,516
Injection, denosumab, 1 mg J0897 Office 13 960 $19,482
Injection, gadopiclenol, 1 ml A9573 Office 23 218 $898
Injection, vitamin b-12 cyanocobalamin, up to 1000 mcg J3420 Office 14 61 $54
Injection, diphenhydramine hcl, up to 50 mg J1200 Office 12 49 $30

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 50 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
Leqembi
$117,091 — 425,800
Epidiolex
$18,966 74 —
Nayzilam
$12,614 12 —
UBRELVY
$7,963 96 —
VYEPTI
$7,699 — —

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

2,487 reported

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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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