Has Melena Bellin, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $56,256 in general payments to Melena Bellin, MD across 80 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Melena Bellin, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Melena Bellin, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Melena Bellin, MD

Pediatric Endocrinology · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1124219043

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $47,474 of the $56,256 with a category attached, or 84.4%. Vertex accounts for 85.3% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest.

$56,256in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 80 payments — averaging $703.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Vertex$48K
Novo Nordisk AS$8K
Medtronic$175
Insulet Corporation$162
Boston Scientific$77
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$73

$94,599in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 8 payments — averaging $11,825 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Vertex$90K
Dexcom, Inc.$3K
Insulet Corporation$2K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$47,47484%
Travel & lodging$7,53713%
Food & beverage$1,2452%

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
Vertex	67	$47,966
Novo Nordisk AS	6	$7,802
Medtronic(2 entities)	3	$175
Insulet Corporation	2	$162
Boston Scientific	1	$77
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$73

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.

Omnipod$148

How this compares

$56,256 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 25 pediatric endocrinology providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$3,333

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase	38	$124,132
Omnipod 5 Dexg7g6 Pods (Gen 5)Insulin Pump Cart,auto,bt,g6/7	19	$22,793
Mycophenolic AcidMycophenolate Sodium	25	$7,700
Tacrolimus	83	$5,200
Nano 2nd Gen Pen NeedlePen Needle, Diabetic	13	$1,499
Mycophenolate Mofetil	14	$1,468
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog	16	$1,238
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	17	$100

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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