Elise Bjelica
Nurse Practitioner · Lakeland, FLNPI 1700328515
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,466 of the $9,057 with a category attached, or 82.4%. It is spread thinly across 32 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among nurse practitioner clinicians in FL 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 331 payments — averaging $27.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc.$937
- Sanofi$697
- Novartis$662
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$528
- plus $3K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$87510%
- Speaking & faculty fees$881%
- Travel & lodging$1672%
- Food & beverage$7,46682%
- Education$4605%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 59 | $1,591 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 72 | $1,374 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $937 |
| Sanofi | 17 | $697 |
| Novartis | 35 | $662 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 18 | $528 |
| Pfizer | 28 | $485 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 19 | $457 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 11 | $386 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 4 | $278 |
| UCB, Inc. | 6 | $218 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 9 | $212 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 7 | $151 |
| VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $138 |
| Almirall LLC | 6 | $131 |
| Regeneron | 1 | $100 |
| EPI Health, LLC | 1 | $88 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $87 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $64 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $63 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 4 | $63 |
| Incyte Corporation | 4 | $62 |
| Amgen | 3 | $58 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 2 | $43 |
| Sebela Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Organon | 1 | $23 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Dermira, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Strata Skin Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $12 |
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
$9,057 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 8,290 nurse practitioner providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dupixent PenDupilumab | 48 | $180,537 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 203 | $8,526 |
| Ketoconazole | 205 | $2,783 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 69 | $1,939 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 64 | $1,838 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 167 | $1,700 |
| Tretinoin | 20 | $1,510 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 102 | $1,070 |
| Metronidazole | 12 | $663 |
| Hydrocortisone | 137 | $619 |
| Ciclopirox | 21 | $423 |
| Mupirocin | 64 | $395 |
| CiclopiroxCiclopirox Olamine | 18 | $370 |
| Hydroxyzine Hcl | 19 | $115 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 19 | $114 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in Lakeland
- Susan WoodwardLakeland$22K
- Jolanta BaginskiClearwater$494K
- Adissa PerezWinter Park$370K
- April WessonTampa$342K
- Margarita FernandezMiami$311K
- Stephanie SimmermanNaples$283K
- Claudette WalkerPonte Vedra Beach$271K
- Lisa NodzonTampa$246K
- Ashima BahlTampa$226K
- Maya BloombergMiami$202K
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.