Elise Applegate, PA
Physician Assistant · Bryan, TXNPI 1396088530
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by other: $44,667 of the $49,162 with a category attached, or 90.9%. Angiodynamics, Inc. accounts for 91.7% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $18,214, more than ten times the $26 reported in 2021. Among physician assistant 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 127 payments — averaging $387.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$45K
- Medtronic$1K
- Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C.$1K
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$342
- Boston Scientific$227
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$160
- plus $919 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$7522%
- Food & beverage$3,6837%
- Education$450%
- Gifts$150%
- Other$44,66791%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 42 | $45,078 |
| Medtronic | 26 | $1,220 |
| Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C. | 5 | $1,215 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 10 | $342 |
| Boston Scientific | 11 | $227 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $160 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $133 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $118 |
| Kerecis Limited | 4 | $107 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $98 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 4 | $75 |
| Convatec Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $45 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 3 | $26 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $25 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Vertex | 1 | $19 |
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
$49,162 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 8,308 physician assistant 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 21 | $14,174 |
| EliquisApixaban | 13 | $7,472 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 99 | $1,055 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Bryan
- Cynthia TrickettDallas$1.3M
- Kristine KuceraMelissa$797K
- Selina SantosAustin$543K
- Matthew BrunoMcKinney$538K
- Brooke HodnickSouthlake$479K
- Holly GloverArlington$418K
- Kirk GautierAthens$416K
- Jaime RomanPlano$338K
- Michael WhiteDallas$276K
- Heidi JeffreysLubbock$259K
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.