Melissa Cheng
Nurse Practitioner · Whitley City, KYNPI 1225258130
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 549 payments — averaging $17.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- UCB, Inc.$1K
- Novartis$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Amgen$742
- AstraZeneca$662
- plus $3K from 23 others
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 | 92 | $1,570 |
| UCB, Inc. | 67 | $1,179 |
| Novartis | 70 | $1,161 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 61 | $1,058 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 54 | $742 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 34 | $662 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 46 | $579 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 18 | $479 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 19 | $366 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 19 | $314 |
| GSK | 12 | $303 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 12 | $190 |
| Sobi, Inc | 10 | $164 |
| Sandoz | 8 | $155 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 1 | $138 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $119 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $56 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Organon | 3 | $41 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Mylan Institutional Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $20 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$9,558 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,918 nurse practitioner providers in Kentucky.
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.
Other nurse practitioner in Whitley City
- Rachael BradfordLexington$447K
- Tara MuddLouisville$243K
- Lee HaasLouisville$95K
- Ashley KnableLouisville$86K
- Christina BenningerLouisville$81K
- Courtney BowlingCampbellsville$47K
- Rebecca BraunerLouisville$40K
- Scott SeitzWinchester$34K
- Kristen KreinestEdgewood$34K
- Lillian ArgentEdgewood$33K
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.