Melanie Gonzalez, DPM
Podiatrist · Independence, MONPI 1992185763
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,322 of the $5,472 with a category attached, or 79.0%. It is spread thinly across 45 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,695 and has fallen 58.9% since, to $696 in 2025.
Across 150 payments — averaging $36.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$963
- Osteomed LLC$482
- AbbVie$440
- Organogenesis Inc.$414
- Amgen$285
- Smith+Nephew$279
- plus $3K from 39 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,15121%
- Food & beverage$4,32279%
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.
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.
- Lapiplasty System$777
- EXT-Other$374
- RAYOS$366
- ACUMED$261
- InnovaMatrix AC$166
- PURAPLY WOUND MATRIX$150
- Omnia$150
- KRYSTEXXA$124
- NuShield$122
- Qutenza$122
- Puraply Antimicrobial$116
- ANCHORAGE$112
- Grafix PRIME$108
- Grafix CORE$108
- Grafix XC$108
- Grafix PL PRIME$108
- Stravix$108
- SurGraft$104
- SurMatrix$104
- ArdeoGraft$104
How this compares
$5,472 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 105 podiatrist providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ciclopirox | 48 | $1,587 |
| Ketoconazole | 50 | $1,177 |
| Cephalexin | 68 | $1,105 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 70 | $863 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 49 | $611 |
| Clotrimazole | 22 | $601 |
| CiclopiroxCiclopirox Olamine | 16 | $427 |
| Gabapentin | 34 | $384 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 13 | $369 |
| Mupirocin | 25 | $206 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 22 | $184 |
| Naproxen | 13 | $167 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 16 | $153 |
| Methylprednisolone | 28 | $153 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 18 | $151 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatrist in Independence
- Ryan FrankIndependence$15K
- Arthur WeismanIndependence$3K
- Jacqueline PyleIndependence$1K
- William DukeJefferson City$54K
- Kiera Benge-SheaSaint Louis$28K
- Thomas BoldryLiberty$19K
- Neil ErmitanoSaint Louis$14K
- John HarnessOverland$14K
- Brittany StaplesCreve Coeur$13K
- Daniel NarowitzSaint Louis$12K
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.