Has Melissa Smith, APRN received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,908 in general payments to Melissa Smith, APRN across 119 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 Smith, APRN 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 Smith, APRN 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 Smith, APRN

Psychiatric/Mental Health · Hernando, MSNPI 1598151169

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,908in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 119 payments — averaging $16.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$461
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$291
Tris Pharma Inc$231
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$204
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$133
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$108
plus $480 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,908100%

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	27	$461
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	18	$291
Tris Pharma Inc	14	$231
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	26	$204
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	6	$133
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$108
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	6	$101
Boston Scientific	5	$91
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	5	$82
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	4	$72
Johnson & Johnson	3	$63
Lundbeck LLC	2	$37
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$20
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	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.

CAMZYOS$108

How this compares

$1,908 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 486 psychiatric/mental health providers in Mississippi.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$3,458

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
Austedo XrDeutetrabenazine	14	$137,521
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl	13	$442
Hydroxyzine Pamoate	31	$362
Ziprasidone Hcl	11	$297
Duloxetine Hcl	19	$270
Lamotrigine	20	$162
Divalproex Sodium	13	$138
Risperidone	11	$102
Trazodone Hcl	18	$76
Escitalopram Oxalate	14	$57
Gabapentin	13	$50
Sertraline Hcl	12	$47

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatric/mental health in Hernando

Erin HarrellHernando$8K
Alison PerrymanHernando$4K
Ashley KarelVicksburg$129K
Amanda HamCorinth$64K
Alanna WrightJackson$58K
Amanda ThomasTupelo$41K
Amelia KelleyMeridian$38K
Belinda EdwardsJackson$29K
Lawanda GlassCleveland$22K
Rebecca HartzogHattiesburg$17K

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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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