Melissa Winterhalter
Pediatrics · Columbus, OHNPI 1316072820
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 80 payments — averaging $22.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$546
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$256
- Kaleo, Inc.$186
- Corium, LLC$140
- Merck$111
- Cranial Technologies, Inc$98
- plus $501 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,839100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $546 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 11 | $256 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 11 | $186 |
| Corium, LLC | 8 | $140 |
| Merck | 7 | $111 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 6 | $98 |
| GSK | 5 | $81 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 4 | $52 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 2 | $51 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 2 | $39 |
| ARS Pharmaceuticals Operations, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Neurelis, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $19 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $17 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Covis Pharma GmbH | 1 | $17 |
| Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 1 | $15 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $15 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $14 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $12 |
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.
- QELBREE$417
How this compares
$1,839 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,041 pediatrics providers in Ohio.
Other pediatrics in Columbus
- Patrice KruszewskiColumbus$62K
- Bruce MirvisColumbus$18K
- Patricia GravesColumbus$9K
- Shelly SendersSouth Euclid$14.1M
- Julie ShepardHuber Heights$6.2M
- Rogelio AmisolaBeavercreek$1.9M
- Michele DritzMiamisburg$602K
- Katherine SwearinginAkron$556K
- Kristie RossCleveland$336K
- Kylie LiermannStrongsville$260K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.