Kathleen Elmer, MD
Dermatology · Colorado Springs, CONPI 1992863518
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 439 payments — averaging $21.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Sanofi$829
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$583
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$547
- Lilly USA, LLC$508
- plus $4K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$8,98094%
- Education$5366%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 73 | $1,843 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 60 | $1,225 |
| Sanofi | 40 | $829 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 20 | $583 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 22 | $547 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 24 | $508 |
| Pfizer | 26 | $451 |
| Novartis | 20 | $364 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 12 | $301 |
| Incyte Corporation | 14 | $282 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 11 | $266 |
| UCB, Inc. | 10 | $228 |
| Almirall LLC | 11 | $222 |
| Amgen | 10 | $203 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 9 | $187 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 9 | $163 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 9 | $157 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 9 | $155 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 7 | $145 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $115 |
| VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $96 |
| Organon | 5 | $75 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 4 | $74 |
| Strata Skin Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $72 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 2 | $71 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 3 | $64 |
| Sensus Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $62 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Prugen, Inc. Pharmaceuticals | 3 | $24 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $20 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Aclaris Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Medimetriks Pharmaceuticals, 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.
How this compares
$9,517 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 280 dermatology providers in Colorado.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Clobetasol Propionate | 78 | $3,484 |
| Tacrolimus | 31 | $2,726 |
| Ketoconazole | 110 | $2,443 |
| Fluorouracil | 14 | $911 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 51 | $736 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 22 | $676 |
| Metronidazole | 15 | $636 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 12 | $626 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 16 | $531 |
| Mupirocin | 51 | $417 |
| Cephalexin | 20 | $240 |
| Prednisone | 11 | $109 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other dermatology in Colorado Springs
- Victoria MossColorado Springs$473K
- Nathan TrookmanColorado Springs$23K
- Elizabeth PiantanidaColorado Springs$8K
- Marcjonathan SerotaLittleton$3.2M
- Stanca BirleaAurora$1.9M
- James SwinehartDenver$931K
- Theodore AlkousakisAurora$880K
- Ammon LarsenLoveland$620K
- James JensenCastle Rock$380K
- Cory DunnickAurora$366K
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.