Cheryl Ellis
Nurse Practitioner · Murphysboro, ILNPI 1689819435
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 140 payments — averaging $14.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$327
- AstraZeneca$230
- GSK$218
- Amgen$181
- Boehringer Ingelheim$163
- Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$160
- plus $777 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,056100%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 23 | $327 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $230 |
| GSK | 11 | $218 |
| Amgen | 25 | $181 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 15 | $163 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 11 | $160 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 6 | $95 |
| Novo Nordisk | 5 | $87 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $84 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $81 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $79 |
| Merck | 4 | $66 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $62 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $43 |
| Novartis | 3 | $41 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $38 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Bayer | 1 | $13 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- FARXIGA$104
- BREZTRI$104
- TRELEGY ELLIPTA$102
How this compares
$2,056 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,869 nurse practitioner providers in Illinois.
Other nurse practitioner in Murphysboro
- Erika VuckoChicago$417K
- Deepa VallikatWest Dundee$332K
- Maria MalotoNaperville$135K
- Valerie LaroyOak Lawn$112K
- Jennifer LiebChampaign$109K
- Tanya MungerRockford$106K
- Kristy LukeChicago$77K
- Yvonna OldakerFlossmoor$74K
- Heather PiercePekin$72K
- Dara McKinleyEvanston$66K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.