Cheryl Elsik
Nurse Practitioner · Corpus Christi, TXNPI 1548925126
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 84 payments — averaging $20.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$220
- Sanofi$204
- Johnson & Johnson$149
- Merck$134
- Bristol Myers Squibb$111
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$90
- plus $816 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,724100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 10 | $220 |
| Sanofi | 9 | $204 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $149 |
| Merck | 7 | $134 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 5 | $111 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 4 | $90 |
| AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $89 |
| Sobi, Inc | 4 | $85 |
| Seagen Inc. | 5 | $80 |
| Bayer | 3 | $68 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $60 |
| Amgen | 3 | $46 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $44 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $38 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Genmab U.S., Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $26 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Gilead | 1 | $19 |
| Taiho Oncology, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| GSK | 1 | $16 |
How this compares
$1,724 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 5,422 nurse practitioner providers in Texas.
Other nurse practitioner in Corpus Christi
- Roxana ReynaCorpus Christi$32K
- Cecilia DavisAustin$262K
- Melanie MorrisHouston$254K
- Stephanie BrownHarlingen$235K
- Brittney MisercolaKilleen$223K
- Roger ChapmanTyler$211K
- Kelly BrassilHouston$194K
- Corrie BerkSan Antonio$155K
- Samantha OnealDallas$133K
- Monica WhiteLongview$118K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.