Melanie Lerew, MD
Otolaryngology · Wichita Falls, TXNPI 1073824983
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 113 payments — averaging $23.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$831
- Sanofi$341
- Stryker$169
- Optinose US, Inc.$157
- Neurent Medical Limited$146
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$145
- plus $839 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,52896%
- Education$994%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 39 | $831 |
| Sanofi | 12 | $341 |
| Stryker | 6 | $169 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 9 | $157 |
| Neurent Medical Limited | 2 | $146 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $145 |
| GSK | 7 | $133 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $91 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 4 | $85 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $81 |
| Acclarent, Inc | 2 | $66 |
| Merck | 2 | $53 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $43 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Blueprint Medicines Corporation | 1 | $31 |
| Intersect ENT, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Novartis | 1 | $23 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $21 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $21 |
| Aerin Medical Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Cochlear Americas | 1 | $15 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 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
$2,628 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 729 otolaryngology providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dupixent SyringeDupilumab | 15 | $55,652 |
| Dupixent PenDupilumab | 13 | $45,393 |
| Omeprazole | 113 | $2,002 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 90 | $1,734 |
| Ipratropium Bromide | 64 | $1,342 |
| Celecoxib | 16 | $1,307 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 34 | $271 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 20 | $266 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 19 | $175 |
| Famotidine | 13 | $174 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 13 | $160 |
| Mupirocin | 13 | $127 |
| Esomeprazole Magnesium | 13 | $91 |
| Triamterene-HydrochlorothiazidTriamterene/Hydrochlorothiazid | 12 | $19 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other otolaryngology in Wichita Falls
- Jedidiah GriselWichita Falls$29K
- Laurence ChuAustin$37.4M
- Mark ZafereoHouston$7.8M
- Neil GrossHouston$1.5M
- Chad McDuffieFrisco$1.5M
- Ian AlexanderBoerne$999K
- Stephen LaiHouston$968K
- Benjamin CilentoSpring$963K
- Amber LuongHouston$793K
- Jeffrey RosenbloomSan Antonio$720K
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.