Has Brett Mellinger, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,425 in general payments to Brett Mellinger, MD across 49 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Brett Mellinger, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Brett Mellinger, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Brett Mellinger, MD

Urology · Garden City, NYNPI 1174586366

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $7,550 of the $12,425 with a category attached, or 60.8%. Coloplast accounts for 68.6% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $6,787 and has fallen 94.1% since, to $399 in 2025.

$12,425in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 49 payments — averaging $253.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Coloplast$9K
Boston Scientific$4K
Teleflex LLC$238
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$13

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$9007%
Food & beverage$3,97532%
Education$7,55061%

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
Coloplast	14	$8,520
Boston Scientific	32	$3,654
Teleflex LLC	2	$238
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$13

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$12,425 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 952 urology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$588,321

Medicare patients

266

Services billed

102,188

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
MyrbetriqMirabegron	25	$26,701
Testosterone	78	$20,383
Testosterone Cypionate	131	$5,792
Tadalafil	31	$5,401
Tamsulosin Hcl	149	$3,175
Finasteride	134	$2,460
Solifenacin Succinate	19	$1,370
Cefdinir	51	$495
Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl	25	$434
Dutasteride	15	$393
Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip	14	$179
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	33	$154

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Katie MurrayNew York$575K
Neil BanderNew York$544K
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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.

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