Howard Melton, MD
Surgery · Moultrie, GANPI 1457327454
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 52 payments — averaging $89.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- CGG Medical Inc$2K
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- Arthrex$312
- Johnson & Johnson$215
- Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.$46
- Novo Nordisk$40
- plus $301 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$50011%
- Travel & lodging$2,17547%
- Food & beverage$1,76238%
- Gifts$2034%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| CGG Medical Inc | 8 | $2,282 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 12 | $1,444 |
| Arthrex | 6 | $312 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 7 | $215 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $40 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $30 |
| Monaghan Medical Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| GSK | 1 | $26 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Vertex | 1 | $21 |
| Northgate Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $18 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Dova Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $16 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,072
How this compares
$4,640 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 855 surgery providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 29 | $1,796 |
| Omeprazole | 102 | $1,093 |
| Sucralfate | 28 | $852 |
| Ursodiol | 21 | $642 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 57 | $543 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 42 | $355 |
| Dicyclomine Hcl | 20 | $335 |
| Metoclopramide Hcl | 40 | $211 |
| Baclofen | 11 | $192 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 16 | $168 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 15 | $96 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Moultrie
- Idelberto BadellAtlanta$3.9M
- Chad CopperGainesville$999K
- Zachary KlaassenAugusta$763K
- Kendra GrubbAtlanta$761K
- Stephen OdomAustell$599K
- Fritz Jean-PierreMarietta$464K
- Nelson RoyallGainesville$415K
- Denise LoAtlanta$309K
- Christian LarsenAtlanta$308K
- Harry LightfootSmyrna$241K
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.