Melanie Murray
Physician Assistant · Fountain Valley, CANPI 1639540123
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 209 payments — averaging $20.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$1K
- AbbVie$1K
- Incyte Corporation$391
- UCB, Inc.$334
- Amgen$255
- Pfizer$154
- plus $830 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,225100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 84 | $1,163 |
| AbbVie | 46 | $1,099 |
| Incyte Corporation | 13 | $391 |
| UCB, Inc. | 6 | $334 |
| Amgen | 18 | $255 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $154 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 1 | $119 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $105 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $82 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $65 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Almirall LLC | 1 | $49 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 3 | $31 |
| Medimetriks Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $22 |
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
$4,225 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 10,423 physician assistant providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Tacrolimus | 16 | $2,576 |
| Ketoconazole | 85 | $1,597 |
| Fluocinonide | 27 | $1,139 |
| Betamethasone Dipropionate | 20 | $686 |
| Mupirocin | 116 | $672 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 69 | $589 |
| Hydrocortisone | 33 | $249 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 21 | $242 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 15 | $199 |
| Cephalexin | 27 | $113 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Fountain Valley
- Shawna JonesFountain Valley$266K
- John QuigleyDowney$2.9M
- Andrea NguyenIrvine$1M
- Mikhail AlperMadera$889K
- Erin JensenUpland$716K
- Franklin ClineSacramento$458K
- Carla CrespoMarina del Rey$297K
- Katherine OsakiEl Centro$274K
- Heather AustinSalinas$219K
- Eric CheungLos Angeles$213K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.