Jody Elson
Family Medicine · Wichita, KSNPI 1659666022
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 129 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 24 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 129 payments — averaging $12.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$356
- Amgen$323
- Therapeuticsmd, Inc.$157
- Lilly USA, LLC$154
- Merck$145
- Radius Health, Inc.$126
- plus $396 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,657100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 34 | $356 |
| Amgen | 17 | $323 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 5 | $157 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 20 | $154 |
| Merck | 16 | $145 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 9 | $126 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $62 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $52 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $48 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $32 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $22 |
| Abbott | 1 | $19 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Circassia Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Novartis | 1 | $15 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 1 | $15 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $12 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $11 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$1,657 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,469 family medicine providers in Kansas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Potassium Chloride | 11 | $118 |
| Furosemide | 14 | $69 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.