Has Christopher Melroy, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $297,949 in general payments to Christopher Melroy, MD across 360 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 Christopher Melroy, 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 Christopher Melroy, 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.

Christopher Melroy, MD

Otolaryngology · Savannah, GANPI 1659399368

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $256,150 of the $297,949 with a category attached, or 86.0%. GSK accounts for 98.8% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $96,589, more than ten times the $148 reported in 2019. Among otolaryngology clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$297,949in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 360 payments — averaging $827.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

GSK$294K
Aerin Medical Inc.$969
Medtronic$950
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$684
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$239
Acclarent, Inc$189
plus $525 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$256,15086%
Travel & lodging$32,13011%
Food & beverage$9,5053%
Education$1640%

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
GSK	296	$294,393
Aerin Medical Inc.	11	$969
Medtronic	1	$950
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	27	$684
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	6	$239
Acclarent, Inc	6	$189
Sanofi	6	$184
Neurent Medical Limited	2	$166
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$68
Amgen	1	$34
Olympus America Inc.	1	$27
Carestream Dental, LLC	1	$27
Optinose US, Inc.	1	$20

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

$297,949 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 308 otolaryngology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$234,622

Medicare patients

294

Services billed

1,469

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
Dupixent PenDupilumab	18	$67,396
Ipratropium Bromide	132	$4,776
Azelastine-FluticasoneAzelastine/Fluticasone	14	$2,637
CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil	38	$639
Fluticasone Propionate	24	$383
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	37	$321
Montelukast Sodium	15	$240
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	19	$182
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	31	$149
Mupirocin	18	$141
Prednisone	53	$119
Levocetirizine Dihydrochloride	26	$106
Azelastine Hcl	11	$74
Azithromycin	12	$61
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	15	$59

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Savannah

Robert LiebmanSavannah$4K
Dozier HoodFayetteville$347K
Karen HoffmannAtlanta$223K
Jose StolovitzkyAtlanta$81K
Jonathan LindmanEvans$55K
Gregory PostmaAugusta$37K
Oswaldo HenriquezSmyrna$15K
Donald BrowningLawrenceville$14K
Robert GadlageDuluth$14K
Lawrence WeissMarietta$9K

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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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