Lora Melman, MD
Surgery · Somerset, NJNPI 1689792525
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $15,215 of the $24,165 with a category attached, or 63.0%. Johnson & Johnson accounts for 66.7% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $17,720, more than ten times the $1,217 reported in 2019. Among surgery clinicians in NJ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 91 payments — averaging $265.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$16K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- BD$2K
- Davol Inc.$1K
- C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries$598
- plus $621 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$15,21563%
- Travel & lodging$5,56023%
- Food & beverage$3,37314%
- Gifts$160%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 27 | $16,110 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $2,120 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 20 | $1,915 |
| BD | 6 | $1,536 |
| Davol Inc. | 16 | $1,266 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 3 | $598 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $185 |
| Stryker | 1 | $156 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $155 |
| Reshape Lifesciences Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $33 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $28 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Phasix Mesh$2,103
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,455
- PHASIX$740
- 1688$156
- LINX Reflux Management System$122
- Barrx$107
How this compares
$24,165 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 593 surgery providers in New Jersey.
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 surgery in Somerset
- Ragui SadekSomerset$96K
- Aziz SadiqSomerset$33K
- Heath AntoineSomerset$15K
- Robert PerezHainesport$2M
- Eric WhitmanMorristown$848K
- Jarrod KaufmanBrick$474K
- Amit TrivediParamus$242K
- Young HongCamden$203K
- Harvey RainvilleGlen Ridge$159K
- Harrison CotlerOakhurst$149K
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.