Melissa Hasselbeck
Medical · Amherst, NYNPI 1285092098
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 308 payments — averaging $19.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- UCB, Inc.$898
- Livanova USA, Inc.$778
- Neurelis, Inc.$475
- SK Life Science, Inc.$398
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$356
- plus $2K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,132100%
- Education$60%
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) | 71 | $1,649 |
| UCB, Inc. | 42 | $898 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 33 | $778 |
| Neurelis, Inc. | 39 | $475 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 15 | $398 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 17 | $356 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 11 | $264 |
| Corium, LLC | 8 | $161 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 12 | $155 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 6 | $111 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 5 | $99 |
| Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $86 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $76 |
| GE HealthCare | 9 | $71 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $68 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 2 | $59 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Biogen | 2 | $33 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Biocodex, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| PTC Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Novartis | 1 | $24 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $23 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Impel Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $21 |
| Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $18 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Tanabe Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Greenwich Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Banner Life Sciences, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Amgen | 1 | $13 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $13 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$6,138 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,395 medical providers in New York.
Other medical in Amherst
- Rebecca EllwoodAlbany$565K
- Denisse SerranoCortlandt Manor$255K
- Michele Kissous-HuntNew York$246K
- Laura MaroldoNew York$126K
- Carl ClarkeBrooklyn$116K
- Maureen ThyneNew York$109K
- Gina FriesRochester$106K
- Ilse StraussSmithtown$87K
- Helen AdamsNew York$87K
- Hailey BrickmanNew York$82K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.