Melissa Lamaster, APRN
Nurse Practitioner · Louisville, KYNPI 1780094185
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 100 payments — averaging $18.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$320
- Novo Nordisk$261
- Medtronic$231
- AstraZeneca$164
- Lilly USA, LLC$145
- Boehringer Ingelheim$99
- plus $588 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,807100%
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 | 18 | $320 |
| Novo Nordisk | 16 | $261 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $231 |
| AstraZeneca | 11 | $164 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 9 | $145 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $99 |
| Amgen | 6 | $99 |
| GSK | 6 | $88 |
| Exact Sciences | 5 | $79 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $53 |
| Dynavax Technologies Corporation | 2 | $34 |
| Merck | 2 | $28 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $20 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $19 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $18 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $18 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Bayer | 1 | $15 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, 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.
- SYMPLICITY G3$171
How this compares
$1,807 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,918 nurse practitioner providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 56 | $55,035 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 26 | $29,384 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 22 | $20,556 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 11 | $18,915 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 23 | $18,205 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 18 | $17,883 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 13 | $17,229 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 13 | $16,173 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 16 | $7,813 |
| Advair HfaFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 15 | $5,865 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 209 | $1,745 |
| Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 22 | $1,355 |
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 25 | $931 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 55 | $930 |
| Omeprazole | 94 | $923 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus | $261 | $71,20869 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro | $145 | $36,14424 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $164 | $29,38426 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta | $88 | $25,69534 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $99 | $20,55622 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $28 | $18,20523 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 1,918 nurse practitioner providers in Kentucky.
Other nurse practitioner in Louisville
- Tara MuddLouisville$243K
- Lee HaasLouisville$95K
- Ashley KnableLouisville$86K
- Christina BenningerLouisville$81K
- Rebecca BraunerLouisville$40K
- Thomas FreelsLouisville$20K
- Christy BakerLouisville$18K
- Blair WagnerLouisville$15K
- Kathryn WestLouisville$13K
- Kimberly RobinsonLouisville$13K
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.