Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Gordon Hughes

Rheumatology Elkhart, IN Medical Doctor

NPI 1003895681 CMS profile 272482

303 S Nappanee St, Elkhart, IN 46514

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General payments

$11,513

594 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Gordon Hughes of Elkhart, IN is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $11,513 across 594 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 74th percentile of Rheumatology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,958 89
2024 General $879 43
2023 General $1,292 66
2022 General $1,776 87
2021 General $1,595 104
2020 General $1,590 75
2019 General $2,424 130

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Gordon Hughes
  • Rheumatology median
  • Middle half of Rheumatology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Gordon Hughes were reported at $1,958. Among 4,454 Rheumatology profiles paid that year, the median was $903 and the middle half received between $171 and $2,775.

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Year Gordon Hughes Rheumatology median Middle half National median
2019 $2,424 $744 $153–$2,687 $163
2020 $1,590 $462 $98–$2,027 $114
2021 $1,595 $531 $101–$2,153 $132
2022 $1,776 $627 $125–$2,303 $149
2023 $1,292 $741 $145–$2,524 $160
2024 $879 $830 $166–$2,660 $164
2025 $1,958 $903 $171–$2,775 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AbbVie, Inc. $2,307 147 payments
  2. Amgen Inc. $1,864 76 payments
  3. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $1,038 48 payments
  4. UCB, Inc. $856 43 payments
  5. Horizon Therapeutics plc $696 43 payments
  6. Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. $477 17 payments
  7. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $470 24 payments
  8. Lilly USA, LLC $457 19 payments
  9. Pfizer Inc. $455 28 payments
  10. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $404 27 payments
  11. Other $2,489 122 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $11,071 586 payments
  2. Education $442 8 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. RINVOQ $1,502 90 payments
  2. KRYSTEXXA $670 42 payments
  3. Cimzia $624 31 payments
  4. SIMPONI ARIA $610 35 payments
  5. HUMIRA $524 39 payments
  6. ACTHAR $477 17 payments
  7. EVENITY $456 16 payments
  8. Prolia $445 19 payments
  9. TREMFYA $427 12 payments
  10. XELJANZ $408 22 payments
  11. Other $7,156 374 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 41 drugs

Part D claims

5,103

Median for Rheumatology: 1,511

Drug cost

$2,067,969

Median for Rheumatology: $1,139,948

Branded share of claims

33.2%

Median for Rheumatology: 28.8%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Enbrel Sureclick Etanercept Brand 67 $566,063
Humira(Cf) Pen Adalimumab Brand 55 $485,312
Rinvoq Upadacitinib Brand 49 $320,748
Enbrel Etanercept Brand 37 $274,013
Actemra Tocilizumab Brand 17 $132,196
Simponi Golimumab Brand 13 $91,718
Xeljanz Xr Tofacitinib Citrate Brand 12 $69,763
Arexvy Rsvpref3 Antigen/As01e/Pf Brand 68 $20,907
Methotrexate Methotrexate Sodium Brand 938 $16,766
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate Generic 476 $15,503

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 41 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 5,224 Part D prescribers listed as Rheumatology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 175 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$2,262,105

Of which drugs: $1,989,505

Medicare patients

778

Average age 74

Services billed

148,041

529 women, 249 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 75%
Ischemic heart disease 38%
Diabetes 33%
Chronic kidney disease 30%
Osteoporosis 27%
Depression 26%
COPD 21%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, abatacept, 10 mg (code may be used for medicare when drug administered under the direct supervision of a physician, not for use when drug is self administered) J0129 Office 46 30,301 $1,004,866
Injection, golimumab, 1 mg, for intravenous use J1602 Office 38 34,100 $311,135
Injection, infliximab, excludes biosimilar, 10 mg J1745 Office 30 9,860 $245,552
Injection, denosumab, 1 mg J0897 Office 26 2,340 $48,243
Low osmolar contrast material, 300-399 mg/ml iodine concentration, per ml Q9967 Office 95 7,885 $781
Injection, gadobutrol, 0.1 ml A9585 Office 40 3,550 $764
Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 1 mg J1010 Office 50 4,000 $390
Injection, methylprednisolone sodium succinate, 5 mg J2919 Office 41 1,605 $355
Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 Office 28 249 $178
Injection, diphenhydramine hcl, up to 50 mg J1200 Office 19 102 $66

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 18 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
RINVOQ
  • AbbVie, Inc. $386
$386 49 —
KRYSTEXXA
  • Amgen Inc. $212
$212 — —
ILARIS
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $50
$50 — —
Bimzelx
  • UCB, Inc. $44
$44 — —
COSENTYX
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $23
$23 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

594 reported

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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