Melody Kent, APRN
Nurse Practitioner · Jonesboro, ARNPI 1154815843
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 42 payments — averaging $18.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$125
- AbbVie$119
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$60
- AstraZeneca$49
- Novartis$47
- Averitas Pharma Inc.$43
- plus $333 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$776100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 6 | $125 |
| AbbVie | 7 | $119 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 4 | $60 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $49 |
| Novartis | 3 | $47 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $39 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $32 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $31 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $25 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $25 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $18 |
| Bayer | 1 | $16 |
| Amgen | 1 | $15 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $14 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$776 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 697 nurse practitioner providers in Arkansas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 86 | $551 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 53 | $515 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 17 | $486 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 36 | $207 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 11 | $186 |
| CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil | 11 | $117 |
| Cefdinir | 12 | $108 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 15 | $47 |
| Cephalexin | 15 | $44 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in Jonesboro
- Angela JonesJonesboro$90K
- Rhonda HillJonesboro$20K
- Mandy GordonJonesboro$12K
- Kirk WilliamsonJonesboro$8K
- Brooke PruittJonesboro$7K
- Mary OharaJonesboro$6K
- Angie HolifieldJonesboro$4K
- Merideth HanksRogers$157K
- Tiffany McConathyHot Springs$54K
- Brenna FitzgeraldNorth Little Rock$46K
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.