Melinda Pavlechko
Medical · Columbus, OHNPI 1891722914
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 131 payments — averaging $17.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$326
- AbbVie$295
- Boehringer Ingelheim$141
- Lilly USA, LLC$135
- GSK$132
- Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc$108
- plus $1K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,234100%
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 | 22 | $326 |
| AbbVie | 18 | $295 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 10 | $141 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $135 |
| GSK | 7 | $132 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $108 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $106 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $84 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $81 |
| Amgen | 5 | $80 |
| Abbott | 3 | $65 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $60 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $59 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $57 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $37 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 2 | $33 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $31 |
| Clarus Therapeutics Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $29 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Bayer | 1 | $15 |
| Organon | 1 | $15 |
| Lupin Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 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.
- QUVIVIQ$108
How this compares
$2,234 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 547 medical providers in Ohio.
Other medical in Columbus
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- Chelsea AustenColumbus$21K
- Shanti ReddyColumbus$12K
- Madona McPhersonColumbus$12K
- Angela WeatherwaxColumbus$10K
- Kelsey DirutiglianoColumbus$9K
- Riddhi PatelColumbus$8K
- Candice DevolColumbus$7K
- Jaid LyonsColumbus$6K
- Susan WhittCanal Winchester$74K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.