Melissa Kuba
Adult Health · Melbourne, FLNPI 1245475151
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.6% of the total across 154 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 26 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 154 payments — averaging $23.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$544
- Boehringer Ingelheim$466
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$390
- Johnson & Johnson$231
- Cvrx, Inc.$205
- Amgen$189
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,674100%
- Education$140%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 35 | $544 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 19 | $466 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 12 | $390 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $231 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 5 | $205 |
| Amgen | 10 | $189 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $188 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 9 | $171 |
| Merck | 8 | $168 |
| Bayer | 6 | $155 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 5 | $120 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $100 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 2 | $100 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $97 |
| Abbott | 3 | $78 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $74 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $65 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $54 |
| Itamar Medical Inc | 1 | $37 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $30 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $21 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Barostim Neo System$136
- NEXLIZET$125
- NEXLETOL$125
- LifeVest$103
- Micra$100
How this compares
$3,688 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,237 adult health providers in Florida.
Other adult health in Melbourne
- Melissa StudebakerMelbourne$16K
- Patricia PagnottaMaitland$409K
- Carly KoelschSarasota$265K
- Norma SolisMiami$150K
- Ashley PontenbergWinter Park$136K
- Jeffrey HernandezMiami$122K
- Jamie JohnsonTampa$58K
- Jessica MangesClearwater$52K
- Sita SwamyOrlando$49K
- Cynthia OteroMaitland$31K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.