Elsa Kuhl, MD
Diagnostic Radiology · Louisville, KYNPI 1942695150
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,132 of the $3,537 with a category attached, or 60.3%. Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. accounts for 71.1% of it on its own, with 26 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,534 and has fallen 69.2% since, to $779 in 2025. Among diagnostic radiology clinicians in KY 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 61 payments — averaging $57.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$3K
- Merck$134
- Hologic Inc$104
- Lilly USA, LLC$96
- Sirius Medical Systems$90
- Novartis$49
- plus $548 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,13260%
- Food & beverage$1,40540%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 16 | $2,515 |
| Merck | 8 | $134 |
| Hologic Inc | 1 | $104 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $96 |
| Sirius Medical Systems | 1 | $90 |
| Novartis | 2 | $49 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 2 | $44 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $41 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $36 |
| Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $25 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $24 |
| Gilead | 1 | $23 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Bracco Diagnostics Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Coherus Oncology, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Taiho Oncology, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Blueprint Medicines Corporation | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Mammomat B.brilliant$2,256
- Unifi Workspace$104
How this compares
$3,537 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 375 diagnostic radiology providers in Kentucky.
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.
Other diagnostic radiology in Louisville
- Robert SteinbockLouisville$74K
- Bartosz RydzewskiLouisville$22K
- John SunderlandLouisville$14K
- Jackson UnterinerLouisville$11K
- Christopher CornellLouisville$11K
- Jimmy XuLouisville$8K
- Daren RepishtiLouisville$7K
- Robert HookerLouisville$7K
- Ahmed ElakkadLouisville$4K
- Brittany SchulzLouisville$3K
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.