Elie Donath, MD
Internal Medicine · Burlington, VTNPI 1558656512
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $885 of the $1,070 with a category attached, or 82.7%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Merck. Among internal medicine clinicians in VT 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 7 payments — averaging $152.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$1K
Across 66 payments — averaging $4206.77 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.
- GSK$69K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$62K
- Cipla USA Inc.$51K
- AstraZeneca$47K
- Merck$30K
- Chiesi USA, Inc.$17K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$88583%
- Food & beverage$18517%
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 | 7 | $1,070 |
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.
- STEGLATRO$885
How this compares
$1,070 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 218 internal medicine providers in Vermont.
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 internal medicine in Burlington
- Benjamin LittenbergBurlington$89K
- Kramer WahlbergBurlington$3K
- Sean BullisBurlington$2K
- Naveen AlamBurlington$816
- John WrightBurlington$568
- Friederike KeatingBurlington$359
- Ali JandalBurlington$237
- Patricia ObrienBurlington$211
- Tanesha Beebe-PeatBurlington$134
- Kelsey SheahanBurlington$127
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.