Melanie Wood, MD
Pain Medicine · Idaho Falls, IDNPI 1811492879
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (42.0%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Painteq LLC at 26.4% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for pain medicine clinicians in ID, where the typical reported total is $4,838.
Across 93 payments — averaging $52.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Painteq LLC$1K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$938
- AbbVie$412
- Medtronic$245
- Abbott$225
- plus $547 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,52932%
- Food & beverage$2,03342%
- Education$1,27626%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Painteq LLC | 6 | $1,276 |
| Boston Scientific | 12 | $1,195 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 9 | $938 |
| AbbVie | 25 | $412 |
| Medtronic | 17 | $245 |
| Abbott | 4 | $225 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $142 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $104 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 3 | $98 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 5 | $72 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $31 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $20 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $2 |
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.
- PAINTEQ$1,156
- Intracept$882
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$775
- PROCLAIM$170
- Senza$101
How this compares
$4,838 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 32 pain medicine providers in Idaho.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pregabalin | 98 | $4,532 |
| Celecoxib | 20 | $1,049 |
| Gabapentin | 42 | $691 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 16 | $582 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 30 | $375 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 25 | $353 |
| Meloxicam | 33 | $117 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Idaho Falls
- Daniel SmithIdaho Falls$11K
- Jason PostonIdaho Falls$11K
- Daric RussellIdaho Falls$10K
- Barry BeutlerIdaho Falls$234
- Jessica JamesonPost Falls$261K
- Jason WilliamsBoise$177K
- Sandra ThompsonBoise$58K
- Christopher VaughanBoise$26K
- Tyler RoeBurley$10K
- Richard RunyanPocatello$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.