Melanie Eubanks, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Gastonia, NCNPI 1780634386
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 84 payments — averaging $31.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Smith+Nephew$278
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$221
- Johnson & Johnson$190
- Amgen$100
- Averitas Pharma Inc.$85
- plus $595 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,12542%
- Food & beverage$1,54658%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $1,202 |
| Smith+Nephew | 15 | $278 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 15 | $221 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $190 |
| Amgen | 7 | $100 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 5 | $85 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $70 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $64 |
| Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC | 4 | $61 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $56 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $53 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Stryker | 1 | $29 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Hartmann USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $19 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $19 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $18 |
| Abbott | 1 | $15 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Novum Pharma, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $13 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- MOTOBAND$1,251
How this compares
$2,671 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 196 foot & ankle surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ammonium Lactate | 70 | $2,005 |
| Ketoconazole | 67 | $1,376 |
| Pregabalin | 45 | $1,046 |
| Ciclopirox | 36 | $707 |
| Prednisone | 65 | $651 |
| Gabapentin | 98 | $612 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 42 | $449 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 49 | $419 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 45 | $368 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 12 | $152 |
| Cephalexin | 22 | $140 |
| Mupirocin | 14 | $131 |
| Allopurinol | 11 | $106 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 12 | $103 |
| Methocarbamol | 15 | $86 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Gastonia
- Robert OlsonGastonia$473K
- Thurmond LanierGastonia$14K
- Stephen HeislerChapel Hill$525K
- Austin MatthewsLumberton$279K
- Matthew DzurikWilmington$142K
- Kristen McGinnessFayetteville$123K
- William RespessGreenville$79K
- Brian FutrellCary$71K
- Andrew HanselmanWake Forest$64K
- Kenneth BloomMooresville$53K
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.