Christopher Melani
Internal Medicine · Baltimore, MDNPI 1922307230
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 1 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, AstraZeneca. That places this record below the midpoint for internal medicine clinicians in MD, where the typical reported total is $161.
Across 1 payment — averaging $135.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$135
Across 9 payments — averaging $110,716 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- AbbVie$668K
- Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation$325K
- Bristol Myers Squibb$4K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$135100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $135 |
How this compares
$135 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 2,979 internal medicine providers in Maryland.
Other internal medicine in Baltimore
- Param DedhiaBaltimore$636K
- Shawn DhillonBaltimore$227K
- Jeremy SugarmanBaltimore$210K
- Charles FlexnerBaltimore$133K
- Kristen MarroneBaltimore$97K
- Ana-Maria OrbaiBaltimore$89K
- Mark YarchoanBaltimore$89K
- David Muniz PedrogoBaltimore$82K
- Julie PaikBaltimore$76K
- Allison AgwuBaltimore$58K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.