Richard Mellitt, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Columbia, MONPI 1730171026
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,537 of the $7,643 with a category attached, or 85.5%. It is spread thinly across 27 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 211 payments — averaging $36.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biotronik Inc.$1K
- Abbott$1K
- Medtronic$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$741
- Abiomed$611
- Atricure, Inc.$562
- plus $2K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,08914%
- Food & beverage$6,53786%
- Education$160%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Biotronik Inc. | 15 | $1,399 |
| Abbott | 15 | $1,218 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 45 | $1,093 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 43 | $741 |
| Abiomed | 6 | $611 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 14 | $562 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $494 |
| Amgen | 29 | $356 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 1 | $186 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $179 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $119 |
| Endologix LLC | 4 | $110 |
| Merck | 1 | $106 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $72 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 4 | $71 |
| Corcym Inc | 3 | $68 |
| Stryker | 3 | $62 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Novartis | 1 | $16 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Mitra Clip system$878
- AMVIA EDGE$454
- BioMonitor$227
- PleuraFlow$186
- Avalus$133
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$123
- CoreValve Evolut$123
- TISSEEL$109
- KEYTRUDA$106
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$105
How this compares
$7,643 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 113 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Missouri.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 19 | $171 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 39 | $123 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 21 | $123 |
| Potassium Chloride | 18 | $46 |
| Furosemide | 16 | $14 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Columbia
- Joss FernandezColumbia$100K
- John MarkleyColumbia$21K
- Sebastian WiesemannColumbia$10K
- Jussuf KaifiColumbia$9K
- Justin van MeeterenKansas City$398K
- Tsuyoshi KanekoSaint Louis$353K
- Ralph DamianoSaint Louis$134K
- Jeremy LeidenfrostChesterfield$97K
- Ronald NewCape Girardeau$61K
- Dante DaliSpringfield$58K
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.