Jay Elder
Internal Medicine · Punxsutawney, PANPI 1881689297
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 116 payments — averaging $17.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$531
- Boehringer Ingelheim$309
- Novo Nordisk$275
- Pfizer$185
- Novartis$150
- AstraZeneca$147
- plus $459 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,03799%
- Education$201%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 21 | $531 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 17 | $309 |
| Novo Nordisk | 19 | $275 |
| Pfizer | 18 | $185 |
| Novartis | 7 | $150 |
| AstraZeneca | 8 | $147 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $99 |
| Amgen | 5 | $86 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $53 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $47 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $38 |
| GSK | 2 | $32 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $20 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Merck | 1 | $12 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $9 |
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.
- XARELTO$123
How this compares
$2,057 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 5,705 internal medicine providers in Pennsylvania.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Ezetimibe | 11 | $295 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Punxsutawney
- Jonathan EpsteinPhiladelphia$13.1M
- Siddharth ShethPittsburgh$11M
- Nathan PatelTannersville$9.5M
- Pitamber DevgonPhiladelphia$7.5M
- Christopher StillDanville$7.1M
- Liza VillaruzPittsburgh$6.6M
- Paul HartleyUniontown$4.9M
- Victor KoladeSayre$4.7M
- Michael OliverBeaver$4.7M
- Raman PurighallaPittsburgh$3.9M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.