Melissa Estes, PA
Physician Assistant · Arlington Heights, ILNPI 1548661432
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 20 payments — averaging $19.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC$56
- Bayer$56
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$54
- Amgen$48
- Lilly USA, LLC$37
- Novo Nordisk$35
- plus $105 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$391100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 4 | $56 |
| Bayer | 2 | $56 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $54 |
| Amgen | 3 | $48 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $37 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $35 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Biogen | 1 | $22 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Organon | 1 | $16 |
How this compares
$391 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 3,912 physician assistant providers in Illinois.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Cefpodoxime Proxetil | 17 | $632 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 19 | $412 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 32 | $201 |
| Cephalexin | 31 | $134 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 13 | $120 |
| Prednisone | 38 | $87 |
| PaxlovidNirmatrelvir/Ritonavir | 17 | $0 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Arlington Heights
- Tracy SpizzirriArlington Heights$13K
- Andrew MastroChicago$419K
- Christopher AricoSkokie$407K
- Karlijn BurridgeWestmont$144K
- Ian MackeySkokie$135K
- Stephanie TraceyItasca$122K
- Olabimpe PhilipsAddison$103K
- Renata BlockChicago$103K
- Margaret RomanoChicago$82K
- Christina StarksChicago$77K
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.