Melissa Stenstrom, MD
Dermatology · Rockford, ILNPI 1477745255
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 644 payments — averaging $20.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$4K
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$916
- Johnson & Johnson$890
- Sanofi$885
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$795
- Novartis$783
- plus $5K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$12,58897%
- Education$4383%
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(2 entities) | 204 | $3,586 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 35 | $916 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 32 | $890 |
| Sanofi | 31 | $885 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 30 | $795 |
| Novartis | 33 | $783 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 32 | $653 |
| Pfizer | 44 | $586 |
| UCB, Inc. | 21 | $517 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 15 | $376 |
| VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 14 | $304 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 24 | $260 |
| Amgen | 11 | $257 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 15 | $227 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 12 | $223 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 20 | $216 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 13 | $212 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $186 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 2 | $175 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 9 | $170 |
| Almirall LLC | 9 | $162 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 9 | $114 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 5 | $82 |
| EPI Health, LLC | 4 | $79 |
| Organon | 4 | $67 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Incyte Corporation | 2 | $36 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Taro Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Helsinn Therapeutics (U.S.), Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Smith+Nephew | 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
$13,027 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 606 dermatology providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Skyrizi PenRisankizumab-Rzaa | 20 | $413,513 |
| Dupixent PenDupilumab | 91 | $383,411 |
| Cosentyx Unoready PenSecukinumab | 12 | $141,926 |
| Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab | 11 | $139,814 |
| XolairOmalizumab | 12 | $33,290 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 100 | $5,588 |
| Fluorouracil | 75 | $5,256 |
| Tacrolimus | 16 | $4,944 |
| Metronidazole | 48 | $3,158 |
| Betamethasone Dipropionate | 60 | $2,674 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 80 | $1,505 |
| Tretinoin | 21 | $1,493 |
| Calcipotriene | 12 | $1,346 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 167 | $1,341 |
| Ketoconazole | 127 | $1,317 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other dermatology in Rockford
- Michael BukhaloRolling Meadows$6.8M
- Stephanie MehlisSkokie$6.4M
- Ahmad AminNaperville$4.6M
- George LewittNorthbrook$4M
- Raj ChovatiyaChicago$3.7M
- Peter LioChicago$2.5M
- Paul GetzWest Dundee$2.4M
- Kyle AmberBerwyn$2.3M
- Elizabeth KiracofeChicago$1.6M
- Lana SchmidtEffingham$1.3M
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.