Elyse Mills
Family · Ruston, LANPI 1417505413
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.8% of the total across 405 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 32 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,490 and has fallen 97.2% since, to $70 in 2025. Among family clinicians in LA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 405 payments — averaging $14.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc$603
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$556
- SK Life Science, Inc.$457
- Biogen$427
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$357
- plus $2K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,840100%
- Education$120%
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(2 entities) | 89 | $1,170 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 53 | $603 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 38 | $556 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 17 | $457 |
| Biogen | 26 | $427 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 33 | $357 |
| Novartis | 20 | $321 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 17 | $288 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 15 | $228 |
| Sanofi | 10 | $191 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 19 | $175 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $146 |
| Amgen | 9 | $141 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 10 | $139 |
| UCB, Inc. | 6 | $88 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 5 | $80 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 6 | $76 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 4 | $65 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 4 | $56 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| GSK | 1 | $25 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Neurelis, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $12 |
| Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| CSL Behring | 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
$5,852 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,610 family providers in Louisiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ajovy SyringeFremanezumab-Vfrm | 11 | $8,289 |
| Levetiracetam | 11 | $157 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in Ruston
- Ashlea HillRuston$169K
- Rebecca EzellSlidell$268K
- Erin PierceNew Orleans$261K
- Tavell KindallNew Orleans$194K
- Brittany MillerVille Platte$158K
- Ryanne ClarkeGretna$123K
- Elidia DewittBaton Rouge$108K
- Rebekah GarrardLafayette$105K
- Tiffany RoeShreveport$97K
- Ghenet GhebretatiosBaton Rouge$91K
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.