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Alan Elliott, MD

Rheumatology · Hixson, TNNPI 1811936107

Payments from drug & device makers

$19,177in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,150 payments — averaging $16.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$4K
  • Amgen$3K
  • Johnson & Johnson$2K
  • Pfizer$1K
  • Novartis$1K
  • UCB, Inc.$1K
  • plus $6K from 24 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$18,87098%
  • Education$3072%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$19,177 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 127 rheumatology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,572,696
Medicare patients
463
Services billed
91,246

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept16$113,296
Taltz AutoinjectorIxekizumab16$103,841
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate509$17,585
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium457$17,317
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen182$4,304
Duloxetine Hcl206$3,579
Prednisone558$3,380
Leflunomide19$2,138
Pilocarpine Hcl20$2,115
Colchicine20$1,997
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen73$1,410
Tramadol Hcl199$1,238
Allopurinol96$951
Celecoxib55$925
Gabapentin122$871

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Colchicine$18$1,99720 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 70th percentile of 127 rheumatology providers in Tennessee.

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