Has Elbert White, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,478 in general payments to Elbert White, MD across 35 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Elbert White, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Elbert White, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Elbert White, MD

Neurological Surgery · Tupelo, MSNPI 1811954324

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,630 of the $3,478 with a category attached, or 75.6%. Stryker accounts for 60.5% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,770 and has fallen 91.5% since, to $150 in 2025.

$3,478in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $99.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$2K
Globus Medical$985
Cerapedics Inc.$83
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$81
Biocomposites Inc$50
CSL Behring$36
plus $140 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,63076%
Food & beverage$84824%

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
Stryker	13	$2,103
Globus Medical	4	$985
Cerapedics Inc.	2	$83
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	4	$81
Biocomposites Inc	3	$50
CSL Behring	1	$36
Spineology Inc.	2	$32
AstraZeneca	2	$29
Kerecis Limited	1	$29
Medtronic	1	$18
Vertex	1	$18
Intrinsic Therapeutics	1	$14

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

$3,478 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 54 neurological surgery providers in Mississippi.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$127,693

Medicare patients

212

Services billed

462

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

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Oxycodone Hcl	14	$85

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Louis RosaTupelo$624
Daniel DuranTupelo$554
John WinestoneTupelo$191
Richard BoboTupelo$69
Eric WolfsonGulfport$260K
Allison StricklandJackson$75K
Remi NaderGulfport$30K
Jason StacyJackson$28K

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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.

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