Melissa Nelson
Internal Medicine · Dallas, TXNPI 1497109649
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 148 payments — averaging $30.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$801
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$657
- Boston Scientific$599
- AbbVie$442
- Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$376
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$330
- plus $1K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,19792%
- Education$3478%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 21 | $801 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 28 | $657 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $599 |
| AbbVie | 23 | $442 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 16 | $376 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 12 | $330 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 17 | $308 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $270 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 1 | $192 |
| Merck | 9 | $165 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $160 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $117 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 2 | $51 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $23 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Abbott | 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.
- VIO3$192
- CONMED EUS$189
- STELARA$130
- AXIOS$124
- Hemospray$117
- Resolution 360 Clip$112
How this compares
$4,544 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.
Other internal medicine in Dallas
- Amit VermaDallas$7.7M
- Valentine EbuhDallas$6.8M
- Gary SinclairDallas$3.4M
- Jan BurgerHouston$47.3M
- Nitin JainHouston$33.2M
- Muhammad IrfanTomball$30.6M
- Aung NaingHouston$30.6M
- Robert BassSan Antonio$25.6M
- Preetesh JainHouston$19.5M
- Paolo StratiHouston$19.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.