Melinda Dehority
Physician Assistant · Litchfield, ILNPI 1386130169
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 145 payments — averaging $20.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$736
- Novo Nordisk$406
- Lilly USA, LLC$340
- Intuitive Surgical$192
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$148
- Corcept Therapeutics$134
- plus $1K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,019100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 21 | $736 |
| Novo Nordisk | 26 | $406 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 18 | $340 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 5 | $192 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 8 | $148 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 7 | $134 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $104 |
| Amgen | 6 | $92 |
| Abbott | 4 | $85 |
| Novartis | 3 | $73 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $62 |
| Coloplast | 3 | $56 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $53 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Bayer | 3 | $41 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $38 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| GSK | 2 | $36 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $36 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $33 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $29 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 2 | $26 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $20 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $19 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Insulet Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Organon | 1 | $13 |
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.
- INTERSTIM$347
How this compares
$3,019 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 3,912 physician assistant providers in Illinois.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 32 | $28,259 |
| EliquisApixaban | 16 | $23,115 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 11 | $3,890 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 71 | $2,120 |
| Risedronate Sodium | 13 | $1,391 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 24 | $888 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 11 | $741 |
| Probenecid | 12 | $688 |
| Pregabalin | 19 | $631 |
| Gabapentin | 26 | $555 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 92 | $491 |
| Omeprazole | 51 | $488 |
| Lisinopril | 51 | $480 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 55 | $473 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 16 | $452 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $406 | $28,25932 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $29 | $23,11516 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 3,912 physician assistant providers in Illinois.
Other physician assistant in Litchfield
- Andrew MastroChicago$419K
- Christopher AricoSkokie$407K
- Karlijn BurridgeWestmont$144K
- Ian MackeySkokie$135K
- Stephanie TraceyItasca$122K
- Olabimpe PhilipsAddison$103K
- Renata BlockChicago$103K
- Margaret RomanoChicago$82K
- Christina StarksChicago$77K
- Darrel CutlerHerrin$74K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.