Has Elliot Michel received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $392,478 in general payments to Elliot Michel across 2,115 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 Elliot Michel 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 Elliot Michel 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.

Elliot Michel

Neurology · Brackenridge, PANPI 1902807845

Payments from drug & device makers

$392,478in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 2,115 payments — averaging $185.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Sanofi$81K
Biogen$81K
AbbVie$47K
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$32K
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$30K
Lilly USA, LLC$22K
plus $99K from 54 others

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
Sanofi	172	$81,307
Biogen	143	$80,775
AbbVie(2 entities)	267	$47,420
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	88	$31,887
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	66	$30,041
Lilly USA, LLC	122	$22,154
Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC	26	$18,563
Novartis	126	$15,962
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	45	$14,597
Johnson & Johnson	60	$12,990
UCB, Inc.	92	$6,597
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc	67	$5,445
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	102	$4,975
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	14	$2,871
EMD Serono, Inc.	67	$2,810
Amgen(2 entities)	50	$1,401
Banner Life Sciences, LLC	20	$1,028
Genentech USA, Inc.	46	$1,020
Lundbeck LLC	40	$963
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	24	$948
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	83	$703
Abbott	27	$591
Harmony Biosciences LLC	28	$555
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	29	$554
SK Life Science, Inc.	28	$456
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	21	$445
Acorda Therapeutics, Inc	12	$433
Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.	13	$336
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	4	$329
Livanova USA, Inc.	12	$318
Bristol Myers Squibb	19	$308
MDD US Operations, LLC	21	$296
Neurelis, Inc.	12	$290
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC	12	$284
Eisai Inc.	9	$279
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	9	$245
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC	12	$233
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	20	$230
Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	12	$225
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	13	$221
Merck	11	$175
Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC	11	$143
Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$140
Argenx US, Inc.	7	$139
Bausch Health US, LLC	6	$114
Pfizer	6	$100
Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC	5	$73
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	4	$53
Assertio Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$52
Promius Pharma LLC	3	$46
GE HealthCare	4	$41
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	2	$37
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$36
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	2	$35
Almatica Pharma LLC	2	$32
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	2	$31
Preventice Services, LLC	2	$31
Nevro Corp.	1	$29
Greenwich Biosciences, Inc.	2	$28
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	2	$20

How this compares

$392,478 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 941 neurology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Other neurology in Brackenridge

David WeismanAbington$9.3M
Amit Bar-OrPhiladelphia$7.7M
Thomas LeistPhiladelphia$5.8M
Jan DrappatzPittsburgh$4M
Lauren ElmanPhiladelphia$3.3M
David IrwinPhiladelphia$2.5M
Paula ClemensPittsburgh$2.1M
Anoopum GuptaPittsburgh$2M
Daniel KremensPhiladelphia$1.9M
Frances JensenPhiladelphia$1.8M

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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