Melissa Armknecht
Medical · West Valley City, UTNPI 1689442063
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 93 payments — averaging $23.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$505
- Gilead$302
- Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.$208
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$205
- Johnson & Johnson$194
- Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$153
- plus $591 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,158100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 19 | $505 |
| Gilead | 7 | $302 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 10 | $208 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 10 | $205 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $194 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 6 | $153 |
| Sanofi | 6 | $117 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 5 | $102 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 5 | $91 |
| Orphalan Inc | 2 | $39 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $34 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Digestive Care, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Echosens North America, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $15 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $15 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $15 |
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
$2,158 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 263 medical providers in Utah.
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Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.