Katie Melder, MD
Otolaryngology · Portland, ORNPI 1164959003
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,733 of the $3,432 with a category attached, or 79.6%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 37.5% of the total.
Across 42 payments — averaging $81.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$1K
- Stryker$562
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$332
- Axogen$305
- Organogenesis Inc.$164
- Baxter Healthcare$158
- plus $624 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$69920%
- Food & beverage$2,73380%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 12 | $1,287 |
| Stryker | 8 | $562 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $332 |
| Axogen | 4 | $305 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $164 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $158 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $139 |
| Atos Medical Inc | 1 | $97 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $91 |
| GSK | 1 | $43 |
| Cochlear Americas | 1 | $38 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Amgen | 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.
- INTEGRA$952
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$317
- PRIMATRIX$317
- DUPIXENT$242
- CORE$162
- RHINO-LARYNGO VIDEOSCOPE$146
- PROPEL$119
- Signia$116
- AVS NAVIGATOR$104
How this compares
$3,432 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 128 otolaryngology providers in Oregon.
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.
Other otolaryngology in Portland
- Mathew GeltzeilerPortland$221K
- Ryan LiPortland$160K
- Jeremiah AltPortland$89K
- Mark WaxPortland$20K
- Marcus MonroePortland$16K
- Joshua SchindlerPortland$8K
- Daniel ClayburghPortland$7K
- Timothy HullarPortland$7K
- Paul FlintPortland$7K
- Justin HallPortland$4K
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.