Melissa le, APRN
Family · Honolulu, HINPI 1942927009
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,824 of the $6,025 with a category attached, or 63.5%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 40.5% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,832, 7.4 times the $517 reported in 2023. Among family clinicians in HI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 106 payments — averaging $56.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$1K
- Merck$481
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$397
- Medtronic$302
- Abiomed$179
- plus $1K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,05234%
- Food & beverage$3,82463%
- Education$1492%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 10 | $2,443 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 29 | $1,165 |
| Merck | 15 | $481 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 14 | $397 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $302 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $179 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $166 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $154 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 5 | $149 |
| Amgen | 1 | $122 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $104 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $92 |
| Endotronix, Inc. | 2 | $73 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Bayer | 1 | $25 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $19 |
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
$6,025 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 466 family providers in Hawaii.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| VyndamaxTafamidis | 18 | $394,169 |
| CamzyosMavacamten | 40 | $316,006 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 98 | $113,653 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 75 | $106,196 |
| EliquisApixaban | 24 | $32,825 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 122 | $2,693 |
| Digoxin | 24 | $1,725 |
| Carvedilol | 65 | $977 |
| Midodrine Hcl | 13 | $883 |
| Spironolactone | 101 | $708 |
| Losartan Potassium | 41 | $602 |
| Bumetanide | 14 | $539 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 19 | $378 |
| Furosemide | 60 | $327 |
| Lisinopril | 31 | $290 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerVyndamax, Eliquis | $104 | $426,99442 claims |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Camzyos | $397 | $316,00640 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $1,165 | $106,19675 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 95th percentile of 466 family providers in Hawaii.
Other family in Honolulu
- Joey SesonHonolulu$48K
- Kanna DokgoHonolulu$26K
- John MosesHonolulu$24K
- Leif MarzHonolulu$11K
- Ia Lynne AranaHonolulu$9K
- Josette DudoitHonolulu$8K
- Kailie WongHonolulu$6K
- Jane StinsonHonolulu$6K
- Karen RowanHonolulu$6K
- Tate KusatsuHonolulu$6K
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.