Has Ellen Flinchum, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $494 in general payments to Ellen Flinchum, MD across 20 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Ellen Flinchum, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Ellen Flinchum, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Ellen Flinchum, MD

Pain Medicine · Lexington, KYNPI 1134187859

Payments from drug & device makers

$494in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 20 payments — averaging $24.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$218
Boston Scientific$150
Medtronic$34
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$28
Novartis$24
Abbott$23
plus $16 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$494100%

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	11	$218
Boston Scientific	2	$150
Medtronic	2	$34
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$28
Novartis	1	$24
Abbott	1	$23
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$16

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.

Intracept$136

How this compares

$494 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 90 pain medicine providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$79,242

Medicare patients

158

Services billed

695

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	2,170	$38,135
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	489	$14,311
Gabapentin	931	$7,754
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl	12	$7,205
Oxycodone Hcl	329	$6,504
Pregabalin	156	$2,576
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	66	$1,362
Tramadol Hcl	239	$1,302
Tramadol Hcl ErTramadol Hcl	21	$1,214
Tramadol Hcl-AcetaminophenTramadol Hcl/Acetaminophen	32	$668
EndocetOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	11	$257
Duloxetine Hcl	15	$152

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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