Eli Meltzer
San Diego, CANPI 1780602300
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 156 payments — averaging $983.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Optinose US, Inc.$31K
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$26K
- Alk-abello, Inc$21K
- Merck$14K
- Regeneron$13K
- Sanofi$10K
- plus $40K from 15 others
Across 27 payments — averaging $3570.56 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.
- Bristol Myers Squibb$43K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$29K
- F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$24K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$77,91051%
- Speaking & faculty fees$57,78238%
- Travel & lodging$12,8708%
- Food & beverage$4,7773%
- Education$200%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Optinose US, Inc. | 48 | $30,561 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 24 | $25,548 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 22 | $21,268 |
| Merck | 8 | $13,605 |
| Regeneron | 13 | $12,685 |
| Sanofi | 4 | $9,748 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $8,400 |
| Novartis | 6 | $7,763 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 6 | $6,130 |
| AstraZeneca | 9 | $5,121 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $3,750 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | 2 | $3,538 |
| Mylan Inc. | 2 | $2,420 |
| Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $2,000 |
| GSK | 2 | $221 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Biocryst US Sales Co., LLC | 1 | $110 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $101 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $98 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 1 | $95 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 2 | $83 |
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.
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.