Melanie Ledford
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Lexington, KYNPI 1710085196
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,667 of the $5,827 with a category attached, or 80.1%. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 26.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,404 and has fallen 99.4% since, to $19 in 2022. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in KY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 310 payments — averaging $18.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$637
- Amgen$425
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$421
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$356
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$257
- plus $2K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,16020%
- Food & beverage$4,66780%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 12 | $1,547 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 34 | $637 |
| Amgen | 17 | $425 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 40 | $421 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 25 | $356 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 20 | $257 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $257 |
| Pfizer | 31 | $197 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 17 | $192 |
| Novartis | 12 | $190 |
| Nevro Corp. | 11 | $180 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 16 | $169 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 13 | $160 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 11 | $155 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8 | $119 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 7 | $96 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 7 | $95 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $88 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 6 | $83 |
| Eisai Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $37 |
| Flowonix Medical Incorporated | 1 | $19 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $13 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 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.
- SYNCHROMED$1,271
- NURTEC ODT$167
How this compares
$5,827 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 104 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Kentucky.
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Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Lexington
- Clay GuynnLexington$193K
- Raechel PercyLexington$8K
- Cecil HollenLexington$4K
- Stephen PorterLexington$4K
- Nicholas ElwertLexington$3K
- Jamie KeyLexington$3K
- Michael ParrottLexington$2K
- Christopher JamesLexington$2K
- Derek DixonLexington$2K
- Jessica KavanaughLexington$2K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.