Melissa Stembridge
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $113,646 of the $123,290 with a category attached, or 92.2%. Insulet Corporation accounts for 99.8% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $47,139 and has fallen 81.1% since, to $8,930 in 2025. Among family clinicians in IL 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.
Across 226 payments — averaging $545.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Insulet Corporation$123K
- Novo Nordisk$113
- Acella Pharmaceuticals, LLC$36
- Lilly USA, LLC$31
- Dexcom, Inc.$30
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$22
- plus $17 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$113,64692%
- Travel & lodging$8,6037%
- Food & beverage$3100%
- Gifts$7301%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Insulet Corporation | 212 | $123,041 |
| Novo Nordisk | 7 | $113 |
| Acella Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $22 |
| Abbott | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Omnipod$117,964
How this compares
$123,290 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,941 family providers in Illinois.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Liothyronine Sodium | 12 | $211 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in Downs
- Ruth CarricoChicago$578K
- Aleksandra BielawiecBarrington$373K
- Erin SieberNaperville$334K
- Jamie BroganChicago$282K
- Ashley NoethGlen Carbon$271K
- Marita KametasChicago$259K
- Shammona ClarkChicago$247K
- Amanda McKeeMount Vernon$242K
- Amy BrownellElk Grove Village$202K
- Brittony CroasdellChicago$192K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.