Melanie Helmken
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Savannah, GANPI 1114964152
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 191 payments — averaging $17.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$789
- Bayer$248
- Therapeuticsmd, Inc.$243
- Aspira Women's Health Inc$226
- Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC$180
- AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$173
- plus $1K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,13594%
- Education$1735%
- Gifts$181%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 49 | $789 |
| Bayer | 17 | $248 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 17 | $243 |
| Aspira Women's Health Inc | 2 | $226 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 9 | $180 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 11 | $173 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 7 | $149 |
| Scynexis, Inc. | 7 | $132 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 8 | $119 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 6 | $112 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 7 | $112 |
| Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $101 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 6 | $99 |
| Lupin Inc. | 6 | $82 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 5 | $75 |
| Amgen | 5 | $73 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $62 |
| Channel Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $58 |
| Duchesnay USA Incorporated | 2 | $49 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 3 | $38 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $36 |
| Millicent US Inc | 2 | $31 |
| Roche Diagnostics Corporation | 1 | $25 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Ascend Therapeutics US, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Organon | 1 | $15 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Mission Pharmacal Company | 1 | $12 |
| GSK | 1 | $12 |
| Minerva Surgical, Inc | 1 | $11 |
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.
- OVA1$139
How this compares
$3,326 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,324 obstetrics & gynecology providers in Georgia.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Savannah
- Debra WallandSavannah$196K
- Dina LinfootSavannah$12K
- Gretchen MitchellCumming$4.5M
- Stephen BlankAtlanta$3.5M
- Eric BrownAtlanta$1.7M
- Melissa KottkeAtlanta$1.7M
- Allan DinnersteinFort Stewart$1.5M
- David MontaldiMarietta$1.1M
- Winifred SoufiAtlanta$889K
- Richard ZaneAlpharetta$638K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.