Chelsea Meloche
Cardiovascular Disease · Concord, NCNPI 1003477928
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 79 payments — averaging $43.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Heartflow, Inc.$1K
- Abbott$344
- Inari Medical, Inc.$304
- Cardiva Medical, Inc.$236
- Pfizer$224
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$207
- plus $880 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$542%
- Travel & lodging$80023%
- Food & beverage$2,33568%
- Education$2377%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Heartflow, Inc. | 12 | $1,232 |
| Abbott | 6 | $344 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 3 | $304 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 8 | $236 |
| Pfizer | 11 | $224 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 6 | $207 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $171 |
| Amgen | 6 | $101 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $97 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $96 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $78 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $60 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $59 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 2 | $45 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $33 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $33 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- FFRct$826
- ENSITE$237
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$163
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$163
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$149
How this compares
$3,427 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 727 cardiovascular disease providers in North Carolina.
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Other cardiovascular disease in Concord
- John AlexanderDurham$76.8M
- Christopher GrangerDurham$24.7M
- Jonathan PicciniDurham$14.3M
- Adrian HernandezDurham$13.2M
- Gary FelkerDurham$12.7M
- Robert MentzDurham$6M
- Michael ShapiroWinston-Salem$5.4M
- Kirkwood AdamsChapel Hill$4.9M
- Matthew JanikWilmington$4M
- Nishant ShahDurham$3.5M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.