Melissa Barrett
Internal Medicine · Louisville, KYNPI 1407838493
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 205 payments — averaging $14.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$612
- AstraZeneca$395
- Amgen$356
- Novo Nordisk$246
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$215
- GSK$211
- plus $970 from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,992100%
- Education$120%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 49 | $612 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 15 | $395 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 25 | $356 |
| Novo Nordisk | 19 | $246 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 18 | $215 |
| GSK | 18 | $211 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $156 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 9 | $142 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $88 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 6 | $74 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $60 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $48 |
| Novartis | 3 | $42 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Promius Pharma LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Circassia Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $27 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 2 | $23 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Bayer | 1 | $15 |
| Gilead | 1 | $15 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $12 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Merck | 1 | $12 |
| Vivus LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Lifescan, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$3,005 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,284 internal medicine providers in Kentucky.
Other internal medicine in Louisville
- Jason ChesneyLouisville$6.3M
- Robert SasserLouisville$62K
- Kelley McIntyreLouisville$48K
- Lal TanwaniLouisville$38K
- Mark WilliamsLouisville$33K
- Scott YoungLouisville$24K
- Frank SimonLouisville$22K
- Walter BruningLouisville$22K
- Brian ParadowskiLouisville$20K
- Suresh NairLouisville$20K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.