Mark Melendez
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Shelton, CTNPI 1982861860
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $43,538 of the $64,440 with a category attached, or 67.6%. Kerecis Limited accounts for 97.9% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among plastic and reconstructive surgery clinicians in CT with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 64 payments — averaging $1006.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Kerecis Limited$63K
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$678
- AbbVie$228
- TELA Bio, Inc.$162
- Sientra, Inc.$143
- Organogenesis Inc.$60
- plus $105 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,7007%
- Speaking & faculty fees$43,53868%
- Grants$3,3205%
- Travel & lodging$7,20711%
- Food & beverage$4,1766%
- Education$1,5002%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kerecis Limited | 41 | $63,064 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 8 | $678 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $228 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $162 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $23 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 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.
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$106,048
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$102,447
- Kerecis SurgiClose$61,283
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$28,966
- Kerecis GraftGuide$15,321
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$354
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$143
- NATRELLE$125
- MemoryGel Breast Implants$120
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$101
How this compares
$64,440 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 41 plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in Connecticut.
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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 plastic and reconstructive surgery in Shelton
- John ReillyShelton$1K
- Elspeth HillNew Haven$27K
- Meaghan BarrWestport$24K
- Shareef JandaliTrumbull$21K
- Colleen JamborAvon$18K
- Michael BaroodyDanbury$14K
- Deborah PanNew Haven$10K
- Luccie WoNew Haven$9K
- Daniella VegaFarmington$6K
- Jillian FortierFarmington$3K
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.