Elise Berlan
Adolescent Medicine · Columbus, OHNPI 1447220868
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $28,651 of the $36,421 with a category attached, or 78.7%. Merck accounts for 60.8% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $14,837 and has fallen 78.7% since, to $3,154 in 2025. Among adolescent medicine clinicians in OH 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 69 payments — averaging $527.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$22K
- Organon$13K
- Bayer$1K
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$114
- Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC$88
Across 13 payments — averaging $76,845 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.
- Organon$854K
- Merck$145K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,09514%
- Speaking & faculty fees$28,65179%
- Travel & lodging$1,7155%
- Food & beverage$9603%
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 | 43 | $22,142 |
| Organon | 22 | $13,043 |
| Bayer | 2 | $1,035 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $114 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $88 |
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.
- NEXPLANON$27,495
- Kyleena$970
- Mirena$970
- IMPLANON$125
- Sexually Transmitted Infectious Disease$114
How this compares
$36,421 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 58 adolescent medicine providers in Ohio.
Other adolescent medicine in Columbus
- Salvatore DicarloColumbus$2K
- Jennifer MastruserioColumbus$502
- Maria BrownColumbus$249
- Jennifer CarlosColumbus$245
- Matthew MorrisonColumbus$206
- Heather StewartColumbus$164
- Patricia FrancisColumbus$132
- Hunter WernickColumbus$131
- Ashley EbersoleColumbus$130
- Cynthia Holland-HallColumbus$105
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.