Melissa Shearer
Family · Virginia Beach, VANPI 1578733523
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 105 payments — averaging $23.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$629
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$283
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$268
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$211
- Johnson & Johnson$158
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$124
- plus $758 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,430100%
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 | 28 | $629 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 4 | $283 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 21 | $268 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $211 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $158 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $124 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 6 | $122 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 7 | $111 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $102 |
| Gilead | 5 | $99 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 5 | $86 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 4 | $85 |
| Amgen | 2 | $57 |
| Merck | 2 | $38 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
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
$2,430 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 4,332 family providers in Virginia.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 13 | $69 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in Virginia Beach
- Andrea CottonVirginia Beach$696K
- Rachel KingVirginia Beach$51K
- Laura JacksonVirginia Beach$22K
- Kim PhamVirginia Beach$13K
- Joseph BowmanVirginia Beach$11K
- Susan MooreWytheville$438K
- Ellen WermterCharlottesville$251K
- Dana StallingsFranklin$225K
- Jocelyn BrackettHerndon$199K
- Hochong Smith GillesRichmond$131K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.