Melanie Mire, PA
Physician Assistant · Covington, LANPI 1710146113
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 62 payments — averaging $29.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$692
- Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC$161
- Globus Medical$149
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$107
- Boston Scientific$101
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$101
- plus $541 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$28816%
- Food & beverage$1,56584%
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 | $692 |
| Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC | 8 | $161 |
| Globus Medical | 6 | $149 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $107 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $101 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 2 | $101 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 3 | $84 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $70 |
| Vertex | 3 | $57 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 2 | $55 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $38 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $21 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $17 |
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
$1,853 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,246 physician assistant providers in Louisiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate | 17 | $7,111 |
| Celecoxib | 65 | $1,543 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 117 | $1,469 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 104 | $1,269 |
| Gabapentin | 88 | $1,121 |
| Baclofen | 61 | $1,050 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 43 | $583 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 27 | $449 |
| Fluoxetine Hcl | 27 | $368 |
| Mupirocin | 24 | $140 |
| Meloxicam | 38 | $74 |
| Escitalopram Oxalate | 11 | $57 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Covington
- Matthew GablerCovington$10K
- Shelly EsnardBaton Rouge$141K
- Jefferson OberleNew Orleans$66K
- Jennifer ScheuermannNew Orleans$56K
- Claire DarreJefferson$50K
- Elizabeth ClementNew Orleans$35K
- Mary Negrotto GuntherSlidell$29K
- Kristen HebertZachary$27K
- David GsellNew Orleans$26K
- Nakia BrooksNew Orleans$25K
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.