Melissa Taylor, MD
Emergency Medical Services · Grand Rapids, MINPI 1801025325
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $45,772 of the $59,846 with a category attached, or 76.5%. Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC accounts for 76.6% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $44,953 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $45 in 2025. Among emergency medical services clinicians in MI 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 138 payments — averaging $433.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$46K
- AstraZeneca$9K
- AbbVie$4K
- Vapotherm Inc$198
- Inari Medical, Inc.$154
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$141
- plus $282 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,3502%
- Speaking & faculty fees$45,77276%
- Grants$190%
- Travel & lodging$8,42414%
- Food & beverage$4,2817%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 62 | $45,860 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 17 | $8,947 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 44 | $4,266 |
| Vapotherm Inc | 1 | $198 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $154 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 3 | $141 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $105 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $87 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $26 |
| Vertex | 1 | $24 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $19 |
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.
- ANDEXXA$51,234
- Precision Flow$198
- BOTOX COSMETIC$167
How this compares
$59,846 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 180 emergency medical services providers in Michigan.
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.
Other emergency medical services in Grand Rapids
- Matthew FlanniganGrand Rapids$2K
- Kenneth JohnsonGrand Rapids$1K
- John VerbruggeGrand Rapids$1K
- Nathaniel BishopGrand Rapids$899
- John ThroopGrand Rapids$817
- Andrew RuskGrand Rapids$765
- Todd ChasseeGrand Rapids$582
- Gary MikulaGrand Rapids$444
- Aaron ZieglerGrand Rapids$389
- Don PowellGrand Rapids$348
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.