Melanie Adams, PA
Physician Assistant · Chapel Hill, NCNPI 1174695456
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 218 payments — averaging $43.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$5K
- AbbVie$756
- Johnson & Johnson$650
- UCB, Inc.$425
- Novartis$324
- LEO Pharma Inc.$321
- plus $2K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,20033%
- Travel & lodging$1,38014%
- Food & beverage$4,52147%
- Education$4645%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 24 | $5,232 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 41 | $756 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 22 | $650 |
| UCB, Inc. | 13 | $425 |
| Novartis | 14 | $324 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 17 | $321 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 12 | $321 |
| Amgen | 13 | $277 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 14 | $259 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 13 | $236 |
| Sanofi | 9 | $211 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $180 |
| Hill Dermaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Incyte Corporation | 4 | $66 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 3 | $57 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Organon | 2 | $36 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $32 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $13 |
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
$9,565 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 7,441 physician assistant providers in North Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metronidazole | 49 | $2,690 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 153 | $1,810 |
| Betamethasone Diprop AugmentedBetamethasone/Propylene Glyc | 42 | $1,537 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 63 | $1,427 |
| Ketoconazole | 94 | $1,162 |
| Tretinoin | 26 | $1,077 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 76 | $1,018 |
| Fluocinonide | 23 | $786 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 11 | $574 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 23 | $354 |
| Nystatin | 27 | $312 |
| Econazole Nitrate | 16 | $244 |
| Minocycline Hcl | 18 | $227 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 26 | $211 |
| Cephalexin | 14 | $163 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Chapel Hill
- Luigi TroianiChapel Hill$23K
- Jo HughesGreensboro$814K
- Rachel HolzhauerCharlotte$739K
- Amber BlairCharlotte$551K
- Benjamin EpsteinDavidson$447K
- Rebecca KrausDavidson$425K
- Brooke JonesGoldsboro$259K
- Philip ReasbeckWilson$180K
- Katherine SchultzHuntersville$164K
- Kristin CabedaCharlotte$135K
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.