Elena Diane Wahmhoff, MD

98% fewer Medicare Part D claims than the average hospice and palliative medicine (internal medicine) physician in 2024

18 Medicare Part D claims, against an average of 741 among the 1,607 providers of this specialty who prescribed in Part D.

Source: CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers by Provider and Drug, 2024 (data.cms.gov). Part D covers prescriptions for Medicare patients only; drugs with fewer than 11 claims are not published.

The MIPS final score for 2023 (Medicare payment program): 100 of 100

The Merit-based Incentive Payment System score is reported for this clinician. Four categories are weighted into the final score; the average among 454,083 clinicians with a measured score was 83.5.

Source: CMS Quality Payment Program, MIPS performance year 2023; category weights for 2023 (qpp.cms.gov).

Industry payments in 2024: $116.24

7 payments; by number, the most common kind was food and beverage; the largest payer was Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC. The 338 providers of this specialty with any payment received $547.94 on average. Payments are reported by manufacturers, not by the provider, and are not a sign of wrongdoing.

Source: CMS Open Payments, program year 2024 (openpaymentsdata.cms.gov); average among providers of this specialty with at least one payment.

2 hospital affiliations

1. Bronson Methodist HospitalPortage, MI · Acute Care Hospitals4 of 5 stars
2. Bronson Battle Creek HospitalBattle Creek, MI · Acute Care Hospitals3 of 5 stars

Source: CMS Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (the group practices a clinician bills Medicare through); hospitals matched to CMS Hospital General Information (Care Compare) (data.cms.gov). Star ratings are CMS hospital ratings, not ratings of this provider.