Provider records sourced from NPPES (CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System). Data current as of October 4, 2026.
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Colby Alan Elder, MD

Individual provider Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1538680772

Colby Alan Elder, MD practises Thoracic Surgery in Cleveland, Ohio. Qualified in 2017, 9 years ago. Practices with Meritas Health Corporation, a 494-clinician group and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Years since qualifying
9
Licensed in
OH, PA
In the registry since
2017
Specialties on file
3
What do these letters mean?
MD — Doctor of Medicine
A physician who completed allopathic medical school.

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Practice location Address checks out

Student / training record This NPI belongs to someone enrolled in a health care training programme. It carries no licence and no practice of its own, so no address or phone number is published for it.

Cleveland, OH

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Specialties & licences

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Physician (primary) Taxonomy 208G00000X · Licence 35.155634 (OH)
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program Taxonomy 390200000X
Surgery Physician Taxonomy 208600000X · Licence MT214426 (PA)

Record details

NPI number1538680772
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Credentials MD
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedJune 28, 2017
Last updated in NPPESApril 3, 2026
Certification dateApril 3, 2026

Medicare enrollment

From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is enrolled in Medicare.

Medicare specialtyTHORACIC SURGERY
Medical schoolOTHER
Graduated 2017 (9 years in practice)
Group practice Meritas Health Corporation — 494 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount
Practice locations2 on file with Medicare

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) 11 times · 43rd percentile

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Medicare patients32
Services billed 63 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age75

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Travel and Lodging $858 7 payments · travel or lodging paid or reimbursed, such as to attend a conference
Food and Beverage $654 11 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

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Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician. Those with a page here are linked.

  • Cleveland Clinic Hospital · Cleveland, OH
  • Nkc Health Hospital · North Kansas City, MO

Colleagues at Meritas Health Corporation

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 494 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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