Melissa Felinski, DO
Surgery · Bellaire, TXNPI 1689962045
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $22,534 of the $31,604 with a category attached, or 71.3%. Johnson & Johnson accounts for 75.8% of it on its own, with 23 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $14,400, 8.3 times the $1,737 reported in 2019. Among surgery clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 86 payments — averaging $367.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$24K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- AbbVie$802
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$801
- Baxter Healthcare$417
- plus $2K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$22,53471%
- Travel & lodging$3,24510%
- Food & beverage$5,82418%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 12 | $23,950 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 8 | $2,544 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 11 | $1,219 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 10 | $802 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 8 | $801 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $417 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $377 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $330 |
| Teleflex LLC | 3 | $302 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 3 | $245 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $126 |
| Stryker | 1 | $118 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $97 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $94 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $34 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $27 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $9 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$696
- PerClot$291
- TITAN SGS STANDARD GASTRIC STAPLER$263
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$168
- SpyGlass Discover$157
- Signia$156
- GORE ENFORM Intraperitoneal Biomaterial$146
- SEAMGUARD$144
- Echelon Flex$138
- SmartAblateTM System RF Generator$138
- ALLODERM$124
- Harmonic$122
- VISTASEAL$121
- MONOCRYL$121
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$118
- SWITCHPOINT INFINITY, ISUITE$118
- 1788$118
- ThunderBeat$115
- SEAMGUARD Staple Line Reinforcement$104
How this compares
$31,604 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,830 surgery providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 58 | $291 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 18 | $83 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 20 | $71 |
| Methocarbamol | 11 | $42 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 14 | $17 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Bellaire
- Erik WilsonBellaire$610K
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
- Steven FassAustin$989K
- Vineet ChoudhryAustin$851K
- Andy HawthorneRound Rock$843K
- Nancy MarquezAustin$700K
- Sachin KukrejaDallas$640K
- Alejandro EsquivelAustin$631K
- Folahan AyoolaDenton$570K
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.