Melissa Choi
Family Medicine · St Louis Park, MNNPI 1811122831
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $3,532 of the $4,602 with a category attached, or 76.7%. Modernatx, Inc. accounts for 77.4% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Among family medicine clinicians in MN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 23 payments — averaging $200.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Modernatx, Inc.$4K
- Novartis$1K
Across 68 payments — averaging $12,067 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Novartis$315K
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$291K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$62K
- Novavax Inc$59K
- GSK$49K
- AstraZeneca$26K
- plus $18K from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,53277%
- Food & beverage$1,07023%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Modernatx, Inc. | 16 | $3,561 |
| Novartis | 7 | $1,042 |
How this compares
$4,602 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,162 family medicine providers in Minnesota.
Other family medicine in St Louis Park
- Jennifer VeselySt Louis Park$2K
- Amanda LovoldSt Cloud$387K
- Robert MarshMinnetonka$300K
- Taylor MertzMoorhead$176K
- Justin YoungTracy$93K
- Gerard SpoelhofDuluth$75K
- Martha MasciopintoCottage Grove$50K
- Glenn DetlefsenRosemount$39K
- Amy GilbertSaint Paul$27K
- Kevin PetersonMinneapolis$25K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.