Melissa Pinckney, NP
Nurse Practitioner · Ithaca, NYNPI 1659890465
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 33 payments — averaging $20.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$309
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$129
- Gilead$52
- Viiv Healthcare Company$48
- Merck$36
- Lilly USA, LLC$30
- plus $71 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$675100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 16 | $309 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 6 | $129 |
| Gilead | 2 | $52 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 2 | $48 |
| Merck | 2 | $36 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $30 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $25 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $24 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $22 |
How this compares
$675 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 4,112 nurse practitioner providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 31 | $450 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 12 | $172 |
| Lisinopril | 29 | $163 |
| Losartan Potassium | 15 | $138 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 11 | $136 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 27 | $84 |
| Hydrochlorothiazide | 15 | $72 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 11 | $32 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 14 | $20 |
| Potassium Chloride | 11 | $12 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in Ithaca
- Donna GardnerIthaca$10K
- Patricia McGoldrickNew York$202K
- Michelle DartSyracuse$95K
- Susan KreppelWilliamsville$67K
- Kerry AhernEast Syracuse$55K
- Valerie StanleyAlbany$55K
- Jodi LogerfoNew York$48K
- Grace WlasowiczRochester$41K
- Melissa LevinElmhurst$34K
- Carla JungquistCanandaigua$28K
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.