Melissa Hu, MD
Otolaryngology/Facial Plastic Surgery · Webster, TXNPI 1568639722
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,806 of the $3,265 with a category attached, or 85.9%. It is spread thinly across 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 115 payments — averaging $28.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Aerin Medical Inc.$726
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$517
- Revance Therapeutics, Inc.$515
- Optinose US, Inc.$419
- GSK$194
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$145
- plus $749 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$45514%
- Food & beverage$2,80686%
- Gifts$40%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aerin Medical Inc. | 18 | $726 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $517 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 10 | $515 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 31 | $419 |
| GSK | 10 | $194 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 4 | $145 |
| Medtronic | 6 | $142 |
| Acclarent, Inc | 5 | $103 |
| Sanofi | 4 | $86 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 5 | $73 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $65 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $46 |
| Intersect ENT, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Neurent Medical Limited | 1 | $26 |
| Bayer | 1 | $18 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $15 |
| Arbor 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.
- DAXXIFY$120
How this compares
$3,265 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 51 otolaryngology/facial plastic surgery providers in Texas.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ipratropium Bromide | 127 | $3,719 |
| Ofloxacin | 35 | $1,332 |
| Azelastine Hcl | 51 | $1,064 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 64 | $954 |
| Levocetirizine Dihydrochloride | 84 | $937 |
| Omeprazole | 21 | $309 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 15 | $279 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 25 | $279 |
| Methylprednisolone | 40 | $276 |
| Cephalexin | 38 | $273 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 26 | $235 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 23 | $217 |
| Mupirocin | 23 | $210 |
| Azithromycin | 21 | $122 |
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 11 | $91 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other otolaryngology/facial plastic surgery in Webster
- Yula IndeyevaAustin$579K
- Manuel LopezSan Antonio$55K
- Michel SiegelHouston$23K
- Etai FunkHouston$18K
- Jamie KuHouston$18K
- James AndrewsHouston$11K
- Daniel LeemanGeorgetown$10K
- Anand ShahSan Antonio$9K
- Russell BriggsAustin$9K
- Sneha GiriSouthlake$8K
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.