RxDoctor Payments Data

Mauricio Melhado, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · West Palm Beach, FLNPI 1255323093

Payments from drug & device makers

$16,835in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 941 payments — averaging $17.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$2K
  • Johnson & Johnson$2K
  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • Amgen$1K
  • Novartis$1K
  • Bayer$1K
  • plus $8K from 37 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$16,66999%
  • Education$1651%

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

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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.

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

$16,835 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,740 cardiovascular disease providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$655,126
Medicare patients
361
Services billed
9,958

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
VyndamaxTafamidis182$4,567,813
EliquisApixaban1,860$1,454,872
JardianceEmpagliflozin1,732$1,338,947
XareltoRivaroxaban1,473$1,166,828
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan1,018$882,037
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol1,052$771,483
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab225$235,811
OzempicSemaglutide174$187,333
OpsumitMacitentan11$138,988
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab133$135,545
RybelsusSemaglutide80$99,371
VerquvoVericiguat102$94,679
MultaqDronedarone Hcl74$70,946
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl101$66,196
Ranolazine ErRanolazine948$63,002

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
PfizerVyndamax, Eliquis$923$6,022,6852,042 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$787$1,338,9471,732 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$2,014$1,166,8281,473 claims
NovartisEntresto$1,066$882,0371,018 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$1,426$797,3141,099 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$910$286,703254 claims
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.Opsumit$969$138,98811 claims
MerckVerquvo$597$94,679102 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$256$70,94674 claims
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Nexletol, Nexlizet$89$44,48291 claims
BayerKerendia$1,052$34,48343 claims
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Edarbi$59$5,41313 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 75th percentile of 1,740 cardiovascular disease providers in Florida.

Other cardiovascular disease in West Palm Beach

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