Jay Mellen, MD
Gastroenterology · Scottsdale, AZNPI 1609871979
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 78 payments — averaging $41.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Boston Scientific$552
- Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$287
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$127
- Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$113
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$52
- plus $54 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,23899%
- Education$231%
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 | 61 | $2,076 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $552 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 2 | $287 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $127 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $52 |
| Pinnacle Biologics, Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $16 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 1 | $2 |
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
$3,261 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 355 gastroenterology providers in Arizona.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab | 11 | $88,637 |
| XifaxanRifaximin | 25 | $85,660 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 19 | $19,724 |
| Mesalamine | 20 | $9,142 |
| Adefovir Dipivoxil | 11 | $5,626 |
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 57 | $3,771 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 291 | $3,629 |
| Mercaptopurine | 17 | $1,273 |
| Dicyclomine Hcl | 36 | $1,117 |
| Balsalazide Disodium | 13 | $772 |
| Omeprazole | 42 | $634 |
| Sucralfate | 23 | $587 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 37 | $513 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 24 | $379 |
| LoperamideLoperamide Hcl | 12 | $244 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan | $52 | $85,66025 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess | $2,076 | $19,72419 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 40th percentile of 355 gastroenterology providers in Arizona.
Other gastroenterology in Scottsdale
- Manreet KaurScottsdale$2.5M
- Daniel MelineScottsdale$795K
- Siddharth SinghScottsdale$716K
- Bashar AqelScottsdale$583K
- Jennifer Horsley SilvaScottsdale$535K
- William FaubionScottsdale$503K
- Hugo VargasScottsdale$429K
- David FleischerScottsdale$410K
- Lucinda HarrisScottsdale$368K
- Niloy SamadderScottsdale$363K
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.