Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

J MICHAEL WEST

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine Gastroenterology

NPI
1710024195
CMS profile
168168
Location
ATHENS, GA

General Payments · PY2018–2022

$4,910.75

  • Reported across 326 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2022

$282.19

18 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2022 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $282.19 18

By paying entity

PY2022 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $1,025.15 76
PY2019 $1,406.18 80
PY2020 $965.66 70
PY2021 $1,231.57 82
PY2022 $282.19 18

Payment records · PY2022 (18)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2022 2018201920202021 Record-level detail is published for PY2022; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
ABBVIE INC. $6.79 01/13/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 892633917 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $12.75 01/20/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 892633919 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $26.57 01/25/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 892633921 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $8.16 02/03/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 892633923 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $10.34 02/10/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 892633925 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $20.63 02/24/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 892633927 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $21.66 03/01/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 892633929 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $18.46 03/31/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 892633931 CMS
Evoke Pharma, Inc. $12.55 03/01/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 913793631 CMS
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. $15.43 02/24/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 875364809 CMS
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc $17.37 01/19/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 957932127 CMS
Janssen Biotech, Inc. $16.58 01/18/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 885795657 CMS
Janssen Biotech, Inc. $15.73 02/22/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 885795645 CMS
Janssen Biotech, Inc. $15.64 03/30/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 885795651 CMS
Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $15.40 01/05/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 959880369 CMS
Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $14.33 03/04/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 959413099 CMS
Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $16.42 04/15/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 959466497 CMS
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $17.38 02/23/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 955874365 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2022_P01232026_01102026.csv

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