Elena Wahmhoff, MD
Hospice and Palliative Medicine · Grand Rapids, MINPI 1609079334
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 90.5% of the total across 10 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 9 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $116 and has fallen 67.0% since, to $38 in 2025.
Across 10 payments — averaging $17.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$28
- Viatris Specialty LLC$23
- Boehringer Ingelheim$21
- Novartis$20
- Neurelis, Inc.$17
- Insmed, Inc.$16
- plus $45 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$15590%
- Education$1610%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 2 | $28 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $21 |
| Novartis | 1 | $20 |
| Neurelis, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $16 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $16 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$171 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 58 hospice and palliative medicine providers in Michigan.
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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 hospice and palliative medicine in Grand Rapids
- Ryan StringerGrand Rapids$4K
- Gretchen RoeGrand Rapids$2K
- Simin BegGrand Rapids$847
- Andrea WolfGrand Rapids$435
- James GriffithGrand Rapids$295
- Kayla AndresGrand Rapids$188
- Jennifer HumbleGrand Rapids$183
- Jonathan AbrahamGrand Rapids$182
- Timothy FifeGrand Rapids$109
- Justin VoorheesGrand Rapids$92
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.