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

Reuben Ellis

Nephrology Macon, GA Medical Doctor

NPI 1114969110 CMS profile 322732

1425 Georgia Ave Ste 201A, Macon, GA 31201

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General payments

$26,572

371 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, Reuben Ellis of Macon, GA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $26,572 across 371 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 93rd percentile of Nephrology 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 $744 32
2024 General $2,291 70
2023 General $1,177 51
2022 General $11,242 71
2021 General $1,966 58
2020 General $778 29
2019 General $8,376 60

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Reuben Ellis
  • Nephrology median
  • Middle half of Nephrology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Reuben Ellis were reported at $744. Among 8,186 Nephrology profiles paid that year, the median was $310 and the middle half received between $104 and $880.

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Year Reuben Ellis Nephrology median Middle half National median
2019 $8,376 $236 $90–$588 $163
2020 $778 $135 $46–$364 $114
2021 $1,966 $202 $67–$551 $132
2022 $11,242 $242 $77–$695 $149
2023 $1,177 $254 $84–$766 $160
2024 $2,291 $300 $99–$852 $164
2025 $744 $310 $104–$880 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Genzyme Corporation $8,609 17 payments
  2. Akebia Therapeutics Inc $6,314 31 payments
  3. Medtronic, Inc. $2,821 34 payments
  4. Horizon Therapeutics plc $1,312 47 payments
  5. Philips Electronics North America Corporation $1,206 2 payments
  6. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $722 40 payments
  7. Abbott Laboratories $692 3 payments
  8. Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. $482 27 payments
  9. Retrophin, Inc. $408 29 payments
  10. Amgen Inc. $396 15 payments
  11. Other $3,610 126 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $11,554 6 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $8,824 316 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $5,758 21 payments
  4. Education $436 28 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Auryxia $6,147 23 payments
  2. ELLIPSYS VASCULAR ACCESS SYSTEM $1,918 19 payments
  3. KRYSTEXXA Krystexxa $1,312 47 payments
  4. IGT D Peripheral $1,206 2 payments
  5. Ellipsys $844 11 payments
  6. PERCLOSE PROGLIDE $585 2 payments
  7. LUPKYNIS $482 27 payments
  8. LOKELMA $387 20 payments
  9. VIABAHN Endoprosthesis $355 2 payments
  10. KRYSTEXXA Inflammation/Rare Disease $292 10 payments
  11. Other $3,791 167 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 · 59 drugs

Part D claims

2,687

Median for Nephrology: 954

Drug cost

$445,811

Median for Nephrology: $127,050

Branded share of claims

27.5%

Median for Nephrology: 17.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Xphozah Tenapanor Hcl Brand 30 $155,864
Velphoro Sucroferric Oxyhydroxide Brand 20 $44,939
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 58 $41,715
Auryxia Ferric Citrate Brand 30 $35,748
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 43 $35,746
Rayaldee Calcifediol Brand 21 $27,501
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 32 $24,338
Mounjaro Tirzepatide Brand 15 $15,705
Sevelamer Carbonate Generic 91 $15,085
Lokelma Sodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate Brand 21 $13,553

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 59 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 9,003 Part D prescribers listed as Nephrology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 71 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$1,035,627

Of which drugs: $560,191

Medicare patients

341

Average age 70

Services billed

9,389

187 women, 154 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%
Chronic kidney disease 75%
Diabetes 57%
Ischemic heart disease 45%
Heart failure 40%
Arthritis 40%
Atrial fibrillation 27%
COPD 26%

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 16 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
KRYSTEXXA
  • Amgen Inc. $235
$235 — —
Vafseo
  • AKEBIA THERAPEUTICS INC $100
$100 — —
FARXIGA
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $99
$99 32 —
LUPKYNIS
  • Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. $96
$96 — —
JARDIANCE
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $57
  • Lilly USA, LLC $19
$76 58 —

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

371 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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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