Who Paid My Doc
Laurie Welton
Infectious Disease Sebastian, FL Doctor of Osteopathy
NPI 1215914353 CMS profile 54348
1627 US Highway 1 Ste 208, Sebastian, FL 32958
General payments
$6,715
Research payments
$1,416
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$72,133
Through program year 2025, Laurie Welton of Sebastian, FL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $6,715 across 217 general payments and $1,416 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $72,133 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than 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. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 86th percentile of Infectious Disease profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
8 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $40 | 2 | |
| 2024 | General | $353 | 17 | |
| 2024 | Research | $1,416 | 8 | |
| 2023 | General | $906 | 38 | |
| 2022 | General | $1,010 | 30 | |
| 2021 | General | $304 | 20 | |
| 2020 | General | $741 | 46 | |
| 2019 | General | $3,361 | 64 |
Beside peers
- Laurie Welton
- Infectious Disease median
- Middle half of Infectious Disease
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Laurie Welton were reported at $40. Among 3,905 Infectious Disease profiles paid that year, the median was $188 and the middle half received between $57 and $766.
Show as a table
| Year | Laurie Welton | Infectious Disease median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $3,361 | $190 | $60–$862 | $163 |
| 2020 | $741 | $124 | $32–$606 | $114 |
| 2021 | $304 | $148 | $38–$905 | $132 |
| 2022 | $1,010 | $166 | $50–$834 | $149 |
| 2023 | $906 | $171 | $57–$787 | $160 |
| 2024 | $353 | $176 | $52–$752 | $164 |
| 2025 | $40 | $188 | $57–$766 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 32 drugsPart D claims
1,001
Drug cost
$1,030,300
Branded share of claims
38.5%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arikayce Amikacin Liposomal/Neb.Accessr | Brand | 14 | $214,546 | |
| Biktarvy Bictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala | Brand | 25 | $130,986 | |
| Dovato Dolutegravir Sodium/Lamivudine | Brand | 41 | $120,837 | |
| Isentress Raltegravir Potassium | Brand | 46 | $98,976 | |
| Triumeq Abacavir/Dolutegravir/Lamivudi | Brand | 22 | $80,312 | |
| Genvoya Elviteg/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alafen | Brand | 17 | $74,833 | |
| Complera Emtricita/Rilpivirine/Tenof Df | Brand | 20 | $71,304 | |
| Juluca Dolutegravir/Rilpivirine | Brand | 18 | $66,286 | |
| Symtuza Darunavir/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alaf | Brand | 11 | $50,931 | |
| Odefsey Emtricitab/Rilpiviri/Tenof Ala | Brand | 12 | $43,705 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 32 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 5,546 Part D prescribers listed as Infectious Disease; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 48 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$906,008
Medicare patients
495
Services billed
458,043
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Arthritis | 67% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 44% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 39% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 36% | |
| Depression | 36% | |
| Diabetes | 33% | |
| Heart failure | 32% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Injection, vedolizumab, 1 mg J3380 | Office | 13 | 19,504 | $334,285 |
| Injection, infliximab, excludes biosimilar, 10 mg J1745 | Office | 21 | 4,934 | $123,148 |
| Injection, denosumab, 1 mg J0897 | Office | 50 | 4,560 | $92,635 |
| Injection, daptomycin, 1 mg J0878 | Office | 71 | 410,103 | $17,347 |
| Injection, ertapenem sodium, 500 mg J1335 | Office | 19 | 266 | $2,443 |
| Injection, ceftriaxone sodium, per 250 mg J0696 | Office | 31 | 2,314 | $823 |
| Injection, vancomycin hcl, 500 mg J3370 | Office | 15 | 123 | $226 |
| Injection, garamycin, gentamicin, up to 80 mg J1580 | Office | 11 | 80 | $157 |
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 13 products · payments 2024Two 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.
| Product | Paid by | Related payments | Part D claims | Part B services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arikayce |
|
$73 | 14 | — |
| PIFELTRO |
|
$61 | — | — |
| DELSTRIGO |
|
$61 | — | — |
| Cresemba |
|
$25 | — | — |
| CABENUVA |
|
$24 | — | — |
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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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.