George Meltsakos
Internal Medicine · Lowell, MANPI 1891772745
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 81 payments — averaging $21.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$572
- Pfizer$227
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$198
- Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc$131
- AstraZeneca$88
- GSK$81
- plus $453 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,49285%
- Education$25815%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 37 | $572 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $227 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $198 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 8 | $131 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $88 |
| GSK | 4 | $81 |
| Merck | 1 | $70 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $65 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $48 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $42 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 1 | $24 |
| Novartis | 1 | $24 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $19 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC | 1 | $13 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$1,750 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 4,983 internal medicine providers in Massachusetts.
Other internal medicine in Lowell
- Noopur RajeBoston$19.9M
- Michael McCartneyNewburyport$17.6M
- Rebecca HeistBoston$17.4M
- Richard PlattBoston$13.5M
- Ryan CorcoranBoston$11.4M
- Joyce LiuCharlestown$10.3M
- Elizabeth LeeBoston$9.8M
- Adnan DahdulSpringfield$8.8M
- Ryan SullivanCambridge$8.5M
- Xiuning leBoston$7.9M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.