Gina Mele
Family · Jacksonville, FLNPI 1467772780
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 317 payments — averaging $15.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$691
- Novo Nordisk$519
- Abbott$472
- GSK$427
- Bayer$340
- Lilly USA, LLC$324
- plus $2K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,861100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 42 | $691 |
| Novo Nordisk | 47 | $519 |
| Abbott | 18 | $472 |
| GSK | 36 | $427 |
| Bayer | 18 | $340 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 26 | $324 |
| AstraZeneca | 20 | $285 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 16 | $256 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 12 | $196 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 10 | $168 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 7 | $111 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 5 | $109 |
| Novartis | 7 | $106 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $104 |
| Exact Sciences | 5 | $95 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $93 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $75 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 4 | $70 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 3 | $54 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $47 |
| Merck | 3 | $47 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| ARS Pharmaceuticals Operations, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Clarus Therapeutics Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 1 | $18 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$4,861 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 14,618 family providers in Florida.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 104 | $133,635 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 71 | $98,222 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 60 | $86,539 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 68 | $81,285 |
| EliquisApixaban | 54 | $58,113 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 28 | $27,086 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 18 | $17,542 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 12 | $16,796 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 30 | $14,972 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 14 | $9,855 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 55 | $6,395 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 12 | $5,405 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 138 | $4,690 |
| Gabapentin | 158 | $4,399 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 395 | $2,806 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $519 | $133,635104 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta | $427 | $108,07885 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort, Brilinta | $285 | $106,916102 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $256 | $81,28568 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $93 | $58,11354 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $13 | $27,08628 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess | $104 | $17,54218 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro | $324 | $16,79612 claims |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USAEpinephrine | $18 | $1,82911 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 14,618 family providers in Florida.
Other family in Jacksonville
- Leighanne MeadeJacksonville$98K
- Jori TaylorJacksonville$48K
- John HuffakerVenice$8M
- Stephanie MompointMiami$4.5M
- Miguel TrujilloMiami Gardens$4.4M
- Itsel Cardenas RamonMiami$1M
- Lewis HarringtonTampa$954K
- Adam StrosbergFort Lauderdale$859K
- Danielle PharesFt Lauderdale$713K
- David RodriguezHialeah$658K
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.