RxDoctor Payments Data

Jeffrey Elston, MD

Rheumatology · Altamonte Springs, FLNPI 1346291341

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,825in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 85 payments — averaging $103.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$8K
  • Amgen$450
  • Pfizer$221
  • Johnson & Johnson$152
  • Novartis$110
  • Ascend Therapeutics US, LLC$53
  • plus $294 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$7,05080%
  • Food & beverage$1,65119%
  • Education$901%
  • Gifts$340%

General payments by program year

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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

$8,825 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 453 rheumatology providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$55,571
Medicare patients
118
Services billed
638

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept51$532,044
Enbrel MiniEtanercept45$374,436
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab29$292,342
EnbrelEtanercept12$118,628
TrulicityDulaglutide14$10,543
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate168$7,263
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium148$5,000
Sulfasalazine56$1,910
Gabapentin192$1,868
Alendronate Sodium104$907
Fentanyl11$735
Leflunomide16$616
Tramadol Hcl72$518
Prednisone102$403
Ibandronate Sodium30$402

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
AmgenEnbrel$450$118,62812 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$29$10,54314 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 50th percentile of 453 rheumatology providers in Florida.

Other rheumatology in Altamonte Springs

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