Edward Michelson, MD
Emergency Medicine · El Paso, TXNPI 1225058985
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $30,739 of the $44,347 with a category attached, or 69.3%. CSL Behring accounts for 91.3% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $14,086 and has fallen 88.6% since, to $1,611 in 2025. Among emergency medicine clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 62 payments — averaging $715.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- CSL Behring$41K
- Hemosonics LLC$2K
- Merck$975
- Rivanna Medical, Inc$548
- Brainscope Company, Inc.$409
- Pfizer$372
- plus $40 from 1 others
Across 29 payments — averaging $10,781 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Hemosonics LLC$154K
- Brainscope Company, Inc.$79K
- Ortho-clinical Diagnostics, Inc.$65K
- AstraZeneca$14K
- Beckman Coulter, Inc.$648
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,6558%
- Speaking & faculty fees$30,73969%
- Travel & lodging$8,47119%
- Food & beverage$1,4423%
- Education$400%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| CSL Behring | 51 | $40,503 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 1 | $1,500 |
| Merck | 1 | $975 |
| Rivanna Medical, Inc | 2 | $548 |
| Brainscope Company, Inc. | 3 | $409 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $372 |
| Abbott | 1 | $40 |
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.
- Kcentra$40,142
- QUNATRA QPLUS SYSTEM$1,500
- Quantra QPlus System$1,500
- Accuro$450
- ELIQUIS$330
- Modified BrainScope One$200
- BrainScope One$190
How this compares
$44,347 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,952 emergency medicine providers in Texas.
Medicare billing
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.
Other emergency medicine in El Paso
- Armando MolinaEl Paso$290K
- John McKinneyTyler$1.9M
- William PeacockHouston$513K
- Myiesha TaylorSunnyvale$369K
- James WilliamsSan Antonio$360K
- Arthur AbelloAustin$204K
- Farid DharamsiDallas$159K
- David RobinsonHouston$143K
- Basil KhalafHouston$93K
- Elizabeth FaganMcKinney$67K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.