Ijeoma Nwelue, MD
Hospitalist · Saint Louis, MONPI 1689823395
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $10,542 of the $12,464 with a category attached, or 84.6%. Novo Nordisk accounts for 86.2% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2024 is the largest year on record at $6,677, 6.1 times the $1,087 reported in 2019. Among hospitalist clinicians in MO 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 43 payments — averaging $289.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$11K
- Accelerate Diagnostics Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$141
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$113
- Inari Medical, Inc.$104
- Pfizer$101
- plus $263 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,54285%
- Travel & lodging$9698%
- Food & beverage$9548%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 7 | $10,742 |
| Accelerate Diagnostics Inc. | 1 | $1,000 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $141 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $113 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 3 | $104 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $101 |
| Novartis | 2 | $47 |
| Bioxcel Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $33 |
| Abbott | 1 | $32 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Gilead | 1 | $26 |
| Merck | 1 | $22 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $18 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, 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.
- ACCELERATE PHENO$1,000
How this compares
$12,464 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 712 hospitalist providers in Missouri.
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 hospitalist in Saint Louis
- Gian MusarraSaint Louis$25K
- Ghassan DaherSaint Louis$23K
- Marsha SchulteSaint Louis$23K
- Arun MannemSaint Louis$6K
- Vasanthan KuppuswamySaint Louis$5K
- Yamuna KondapallySaint Louis$5K
- Basem AbdeenSaint Louis$4K
- John MwangiSaint Louis$4K
- Emily WoodSaint Louis$3K
- Tariq HalasaSaint Louis$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.