Melissa Suarez, DO
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Somerdale, NJNPI 1942511837
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $13,615 of the $16,452 with a category attached, or 82.8%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 87.3% of it on its own, with 27 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $11,562 and has fallen 92.6% since, to $859 in 2025. Among obstetrics & gynecology clinicians in NJ 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 133 payments — averaging $123.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$14K
- AbbVie$364
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$292
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$169
- Exeltis, USA Inc.$130
- Baxter Healthcare$113
- plus $1K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$250%
- Travel & lodging$7204%
- Food & beverage$2,09113%
- Education$13,61583%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 31 | $14,367 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 21 | $364 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 13 | $292 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 10 | $169 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 8 | $130 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $113 |
| Avanos Medical | 5 | $105 |
| Biogen | 1 | $101 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $88 |
| Bayer | 5 | $83 |
| Gynesonics, Inc. | 1 | $79 |
| Organon | 5 | $72 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 4 | $70 |
| Alydia Health | 2 | $47 |
| Merck | 3 | $42 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $40 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Millicent US Inc | 2 | $36 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 3 | $32 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $24 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $20 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Therapeuticsmd, 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.
- DAVINCI XI$13,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$665
- TISSEEL$113
- Orilissa$103
- Zurzuvae$101
How this compares
$16,452 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,242 obstetrics & gynecology providers in New Jersey.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fluconazole | 11 | $27 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Somerdale
- Jennifer AshtonEnglewood$1.5M
- Geoffrey BowersVoorhees$228K
- Neha DeshpandePlainsboro$206K
- Paula JasionowskiVoorhees$193K
- Justin ChuraSwedesboro$179K
- Andrea VentolaFlorham Park$145K
- Aiman ShiladPaterson$100K
- Patrick CulliganMorristown$93K
- Dipak DelvadiaCherry Hill$86K
- Susan PitmanWest Orange$77K
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.