Guy El Helou, MD
Infectious Disease · Gainesville, FLNPI 1255783528
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 51 payments — averaging $42.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Shionogi Inc$737
- La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$275
- Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$204
- AbbVie$152
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$125
- Merck$122
- plus $533 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$63029%
- Food & beverage$1,51871%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Shionogi Inc | 6 | $737 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 8 | $275 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 4 | $204 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $152 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $125 |
| Merck | 5 | $122 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $116 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $108 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $88 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $87 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 4 | $84 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Fetroja$630
- Zevtera$134
- Rezzayo$111
- EMBLAVEO$111
- LIVTENCITY$108
How this compares
$2,148 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 669 infectious disease 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Daptomycin | 16 | $10,471 |
| Meropenem | 15 | $3,709 |
| Cefepime Hcl | 16 | $2,966 |
| Piperacillin-TazobactamPiperacillin Sodium/Tazobactam | 11 | $1,953 |
| Linezolid | 19 | $1,061 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 41 | $986 |
| Ethambutol Hcl | 13 | $806 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 15 | $485 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 32 | $480 |
| Azithromycin | 14 | $475 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 28 | $273 |
| Metronidazole | 12 | $151 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other infectious disease in Gainesville
- Ammara MushtaqGainesville$2.7M
- Lennox ArchibaldGainesville$2.1M
- John MorrisGainesville$1.7M
- Cornelius ClancyGainesville$686K
- Kartikeya CherabuddiGainesville$652K
- Gary WangGainesville$451K
- Preeti ManavalanGainesville$130K
- Moti RamgopalFort Pierce$13.5M
- Larry BushAtlantis$9.3M
- Olayemi OsiyemiWest Palm Beach$8.8M
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.