Araz Melkonian, MD
Family Medicine · Glendale, CANPI 1710423405
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 6 payments — averaging $29.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pulmonx Corporation$79
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$44
- Abbott$20
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$19
- Exact Sciences$16
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$178100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Pulmonx Corporation | 1 | $79 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $44 |
| Abbott | 1 | $20 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $16 |
How this compares
$178 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| AustedoDeutetrabenazine | 12 | $50,106 |
| EliquisApixaban | 110 | $42,205 |
| RetacritEpoetin Alfa-Epbx | 18 | $4,032 |
| Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 23 | $3,006 |
| Cyclosporine | 11 | $2,232 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 18 | $1,606 |
| Midodrine Hcl | 14 | $949 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 52 | $927 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 64 | $672 |
| Gabapentin | 48 | $649 |
| Pregabalin | 13 | $630 |
| Memantine Hcl | 18 | $593 |
| Humulin RInsulin Regular, Human | 13 | $544 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 16 | $492 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 37 | $438 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Glendale
- Esther YoonGlendale$5.8M
- David HanGlendale$2.3M
- Amina HaggagNorthridge$112.8M
- Steven ReynoldsLong Beach$53M
- Rizwana MohseniLake Forest$26.7M
- Daniel JohnsonSan Diego$15.7M
- Stacey LayleSan Diego$14.8M
- Apinya VutikullirdCypress$14.3M
- Hanid AudishSpring Valley$13.6M
- Augusto FocilOxnard$12.6M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.