Has Serguei Melnitchouk, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $37,050 in general payments to Serguei Melnitchouk, MD across 54 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Serguei Melnitchouk, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Serguei Melnitchouk, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Serguei Melnitchouk, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Boston, MANPI 1437176898

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (31.6%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 85.5% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $17,172 and has fallen 83.0% since, to $2,922 in 2025.

$37,050in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 54 payments — averaging $686.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$32K
Intuitive Surgical$4K
Edwards Lifesciences$1K
Arthrex$214
Abbott$171

$365,736in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 77 payments — averaging $4749.81 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Medtronic$363K
Edwards Lifesciences$3K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$9,00024%
Speaking & faculty fees$11,70032%
Travel & lodging$11,60031%
Food & beverage$1,7505%
Education$3,0008%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	43	$31,692
Intuitive Surgical	5	$3,735
Edwards Lifesciences	2	$1,238
Arthrex	2	$214
Abbott	2	$171

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.

How this compares

$37,050 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 171 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$259,602

Medicare patients

111

Services billed

246

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.

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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.

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