Melina Sims
Acute Care · Surprise, AZNPI 1851096903
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 87 payments — averaging $38.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$958
- AbbVie$471
- Abbott$336
- Novo Nordisk$315
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$197
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$186
- plus $859 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,324100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 17 | $958 |
| AbbVie | 18 | $471 |
| Abbott | 4 | $336 |
| Novo Nordisk | 12 | $315 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $197 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $186 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 5 | $175 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $122 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 4 | $99 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 3 | $97 |
| Amgen | 4 | $60 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $53 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $42 |
| Novartis | 1 | $30 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $28 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $26 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $25 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| GSK | 1 | $18 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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
$3,324 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 482 acute care providers in Arizona.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 11 | $220 |
| Warfarin Sodium | 13 | $106 |
| Prednisone | 26 | $87 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other acute care in Surprise
- Gayle JamesonScottsdale$205K
- Nicole CiffoneTucson$162K
- Kim KrmpoticPhoenix$79K
- Stephanie WilsonScottsdale$37K
- Laura Cook-GongoraPhoenix$32K
- Cathy PaynePhoenix$26K
- Chandra SorrellePhoenix$16K
- Nicole RauscherPhoenix$12K
- Seania BristolMesa$11K
- Brooke GambinoPhoenix$11K
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.