Melanie Stacey
Nurse Practitioner · Birmingham, ALNPI 1184134520
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 192 payments — averaging $20.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$459
- Merck$396
- Amgen$354
- Pfizer$286
- AstraZeneca$242
- Johnson & Johnson$236
- plus $2K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,941100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 24 | $459 |
| Merck | 20 | $396 |
| Amgen | 19 | $354 |
| Pfizer | 15 | $286 |
| AstraZeneca | 15 | $242 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 13 | $236 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 8 | $213 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $206 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 12 | $181 |
| Novartis | 7 | $133 |
| Abbott | 7 | $121 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 4 | $114 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 2 | $102 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $90 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $81 |
| Medicomp Inc | 1 | $79 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $57 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $40 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 2 | $34 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Veryan Medical Incorporated | 1 | $22 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Bayer | 1 | $15 |
| Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC | 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.
- FUROSCIX$122
How this compares
$3,941 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,505 nurse practitioner providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 53 | $639 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 19 | $438 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 23 | $189 |
| Cephalexin | 12 | $55 |
| Carvedilol | 13 | $43 |
| Spironolactone | 12 | $42 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in Birmingham
- Ginger McDanielBirmingham$27K
- Leah GravesBirmingham$21K
- Lauren DowneyBirmingham$19K
- Lisa PeoplesBirmingham$17K
- Samantha WeaverBirmingham$17K
- Logan GilmoreBirmingham$13K
- Jennifer CothronBirmingham$13K
- Chelsea KelleyBirmingham$13K
- Vanessa HillBirmingham$11K
- Heather BuffingtonBirmingham$10K
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.