Melissa Sheppard
Nurse Practitioner · Aurora, CONPI 1548023120
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 59 payments — averaging $25.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$202
- Pfizer$154
- Sobi, Inc$123
- AbbVie$105
- Bayer$82
- Novartis$77
- plus $771 from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,513100%
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.
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 | 8 | $202 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $154 |
| Sobi, Inc | 4 | $123 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $105 |
| Bayer | 3 | $82 |
| Novartis | 3 | $77 |
| Incyte Corporation | 3 | $72 |
| Springworks Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $70 |
| Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation | 2 | $51 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $48 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Geron Corporation | 1 | $35 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Stemline Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $33 |
| GSK | 1 | $30 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Caris MPI, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Genmab U.S., Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Beone Medicines USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $20 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
| Puma Biotechnology, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$1,513 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,384 nurse practitioner providers in Colorado.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 36 | $53,057 |
| EliquisApixaban | 19 | $23,999 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 14 | $22,850 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 56 | $2,638 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 12 | $2,122 |
| Gabapentin | 69 | $938 |
| Lidocaine | 14 | $648 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 54 | $637 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 41 | $625 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 36 | $596 |
| Mirtazapine | 21 | $578 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 56 | $559 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 81 | $533 |
| Fluconazole | 34 | $410 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 44 | $373 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $154 | $23,99919 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $20 | $22,85014 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 85th percentile of 1,384 nurse practitioner providers in Colorado.
Other nurse practitioner in Aurora
- Amy SidorskiAurora$97K
- Alicia StarkAurora$14K
- Amy EspositoAurora$8K
- Sumy AnthonyAurora$6K
- Monica RabanalEvergreen$1.6M
- Deborah HinnenColorado Springs$388K
- Christina HansonLone Tree$381K
- Christina ProulxDenver$222K
- Kara HartPueblo$142K
- Lori WenzGrand Junction$54K
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.