RxDoctor Payments Data

Christy Melzark, NP

Family · Sandstone, MNNPI 1104540012

Payments from drug & device makers

$223in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 13 payments — averaging $17.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$62
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$34
  • Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$25
  • Edwards Lifesciences$20
  • AbbVie$19
  • Amgen$18
  • plus $44 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$223100%

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

22
23
24

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.

How this compares

$223 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,121 family providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$11,094
Medicare patients
96
Services billed
554

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban38$38,655
JardianceEmpagliflozin44$31,710
XareltoRivaroxaban27$28,797
OzempicSemaglutide23$25,439
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter33$21,007
LinzessLinaclotide13$8,097
Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide14$8,005
Advair HfaFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol11$6,445
PremproEstrogen,con/M-Progest Acet11$2,773
Lubiprostone11$2,763
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate45$1,858
Atorvastatin Calcium144$1,315
Metoprolol Succinate76$1,310
Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate17$1,226
Omeprazole113$1,181

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Spiriva Respimat$14$39,71558 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$14$25,43923 claims
AbbVieLinzess$19$8,09713 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 70th percentile of 1,121 family providers in Minnesota.

Other family in Sandstone

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