Jean Welsh, MD
Family Medicine · Silver Spring, MDNPI 1861592461
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 859 payments — averaging $30.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Genentech USA, Inc.$3K
- AbbVie$3K
- AstraZeneca$2K
- Novartis$1K
- Novo Nordisk AS$1K
- Novo Nordisk$1K
- plus $14K from 54 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $313.77 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Novo Nordisk AS$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,80011%
- Travel & lodging$2,67411%
- Food & beverage$18,72776%
- Education$2931%
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.
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
$25,794 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,193 family medicine providers in Maryland.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| LinzessLinaclotide | 345 | $222,395 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 113 | $97,421 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 83 | $88,377 |
| EliquisApixaban | 78 | $63,741 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 61 | $46,658 |
| XifaxanRifaximin | 13 | $42,981 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 41 | $33,440 |
| AptiomEslicarbazepine Acetate | 12 | $32,624 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 20 | $28,758 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 21 | $28,742 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 31 | $25,394 |
| JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl | 25 | $24,795 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 27 | $24,619 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 17 | $22,526 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 16 | $14,514 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieLinzess | $2,642 | $222,395345 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma | $1,861 | $107,665125 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta | $440 | $102,89199 claims |
| MerckJanuvia, Janumet | $410 | $71,45486 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $319 | $63,74178 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity, Olanzapine | $1,045 | $55,027137 claims |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan | $77 | $42,98113 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $572 | $33,44041 claims |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.Aptiom | $1,272 | $32,62412 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $1,343 | $28,74221 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $104 | $25,39431 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $1,470 | $24,61927 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 1,193 family medicine providers in Maryland.
Other family medicine in Silver Spring
- Cynthia KleppingerSilver Spring$51K
- Stephen OngOxon Hill$5.9M
- Stephan BartWoodstock$1.7M
- Karen DonaldsonBaltimore$899K
- Rajiv DuaColumbia$765K
- Greg TampusLutherville Timonium$735K
- Louis JacquesBaltimore$522K
- Stephanie MellerOxon Hill$518K
- Sharon ChungGlen Burnie$333K
- Michael ObiefuneBaltimore$291K
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.