Has Melissa Piliang, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $123,002 in general payments to Melissa Piliang, MD across 89 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Melissa Piliang, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Melissa Piliang, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Melissa Piliang, MD

Dermatopathology · Cleveland, OHNPI 1487750444

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $84,063 of the $123,002 with a category attached, or 68.3%. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Pfizer at 58.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $59,469 and has fallen 72.2% since, to $16,540 in 2025. Among dermatopathology clinicians in OH 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.

$123,002in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 89 payments — averaging $1382.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Pfizer$72K
Lilly USA, LLC$39K
Eli Lilly$11K
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$817
Sanofi$118
Organogenesis Inc.$20

$145,395in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 36 payments — averaging $4038.76 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

AbbVie$96K
Sanofi US Services Inc.$38K
Pfizer$11K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$26,97522%
Speaking & faculty fees$84,06368%
Travel & lodging$9,9528%
Food & beverage$1,8772%
Education$1350%

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
Pfizer	32	$71,861
Lilly USA, LLC	46	$39,500
Eli Lilly	7	$10,685
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	2	$817
Sanofi	1	$118
Organogenesis Inc.	1	$20

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.

OLUMIANT$44,364
LITFULO$29,497
CIBINQO$26,480
EUCRISA$1,905
Leqselvi$817
TALTZ$125
LIBTAYO$118

How this compares

$123,002 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 25 dermatopathology providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$98,171

Medicare patients

1,375

Services billed

2,536

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
Minoxidil	53	$627
Finasteride	24	$488
Ketoconazole	30	$371

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other dermatopathology in Cleveland

Stephen SomachCleveland$3K
Kimberly HollandsworthCleveland$2K
Timothy ChangCleveland$800
Jonathan BassCleveland$20
Neera Agarwal AntalHudson$39K
Adam HesselDublin$11K
Katherine FeningMayfield Heights$10K
Lindsey DohseChillicothe$7K
Omar SalemSylvania$5K
Joshua WeaverAkron$3K

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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.

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