RxDoctor Payments Data

Elisa Melendez, MD

Family Medicine · Thornton, CONPI 1962523555

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,071in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 34 payments — averaging $178.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Cardinal Health 110 LLC$6K
  • Exact Sciences$80
  • Novo Nordisk$64
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$48
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$42
  • Merck$32
  • plus $205 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$5,60092%
  • Food & beverage$4598%
  • Gifts$120%

General payments by program year

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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

$6,071 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,079 family medicine providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$43,711
Medicare patients
169
Services billed
736

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
ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf21,631$3,761,245
ArexvyRsvpref3 Antigen/As01e/Pf15,563$3,743,546
AbrysvoRsv Vacc, Pref A And Pref B/Pf6,143$1,508,480
Boostrix TdapDiphth,pertuss(Acell),tet Vac10,644$589,093
TwinrixHepatitis A And B Vaccine/Pf4,134$470,164
TrulicityDulaglutide29$44,970
Typhim ViTyphoid Vi Polysacch Vaccine342$41,034
Adacel TdapDiph,pertuss(Acell),tet Vac/Pf708$38,761
EliquisApixaban33$34,124
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate20$29,892
HavrixHepatitis A Virus Vaccine/Pf343$29,368
Yf-VaxYellow Fever Vaccine Live/Pf139$25,137
XareltoRivaroxaban14$24,309
JardianceEmpagliflozin15$23,323
M-M-R Ii VaccineMeasles,mumps,rubella Vacc/Pf185$16,715

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
PfizerAbrysvo, Eliquis$25$1,542,6056,176 claims
MerckJanuvia, Gardasil 9, Vaqta$32$45,07497 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$26$44,97029 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$48$23,32315 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$12$16,53924 claims
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.Menquadfi$12$9,61762 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 90th percentile of 2,079 family medicine providers in Colorado.

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