Storie Melancon
Family Medicine · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1740702612
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 60 payments — averaging $68.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$615
- Medtronic$416
- Novo Nordisk$250
- Johnson & Johnson$228
- KCI USA, Inc.$178
- plus $1K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$81220%
- Food & beverage$2,79768%
- Education$50012%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 7 | $1,341 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 10 | $615 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $416 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $250 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $228 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $178 |
| BD | 3 | $154 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $137 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $97 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $97 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 6 | $96 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $63 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $57 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $50 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2 | $40 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $19 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Acacia Pharma Inc | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,293
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$410
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$317
- Emprint$166
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$137
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$137
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$135
- V.A.C. DERMATAC$133
- PREVENA$133
- V.A.C. VERAFLO CLEANSE CHOICE$133
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$128
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$128
- RYBELSUS$125
- Ozempic$125
- LigaSure$123
- EndoFlip$112
- Phasix Mesh$107
- Echelon Flex$100
How this compares
$4,110 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,469 family medicine providers in Louisiana.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Clindamycin Hcl | 20 | $182 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 14 | $59 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 12 | $40 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Baton Rouge
- Christine SmithBaton Rouge$185K
- Kevin DibenedettoBaton Rouge$80K
- Stan MaysBaton Rouge$15K
- Myles JaynesBaton Rouge$15K
- Yushen LeeBaton Rouge$14K
- Gerald BarberBaton Rouge$14K
- Vincent NguyenBaton Rouge$13K
- Clinton GuilloryMonroe$18.5M
- Jason MorrisLake Charles$18M
- Michael SeepLake Charles$9.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.