Question 1

Has Tonya Melton received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $11,298 in general payments to Tonya Melton across 531 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Question 2

Does a payment mean Tonya Melton did something wrong?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 3

Where does this information about Tonya Melton come from?

Accepted Answer

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.

Company	Payments	Total
Novartis	44	$1,083
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	46	$837
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	36	$744
Merck	24	$656
Pfizer	32	$556
Bristol Myers Squibb	23	$417
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	14	$394
Genentech USA, Inc.	19	$379
Lilly USA, LLC	15	$363
GSK	14	$359
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	13	$353
Sanofi	10	$264
AbbVie	11	$240
Incyte Corporation	11	$220
Boehringer Ingelheim	5	$201
Seagen Inc.	12	$198
Astellas Pharma US Inc	10	$186
AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	8	$178
Puma Biotechnology, Inc.	9	$172
Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$169
ADC Therapeutics America, Inc.	9	$168
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	10	$158
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.	9	$157
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	9	$156
Tersera Therapeutics LLC	6	$153
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	6	$137
Eisai Inc.	6	$136
Genmab U.S., Inc.	6	$135
Taiho Oncology, Inc.	7	$133
EMD Serono, Inc.	6	$120
Array Biopharma Inc	8	$116
Bayer	6	$113
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	5	$109
Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$101
Beigene USA, Inc.	6	$97
Immunocore Limited	4	$95
Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC	4	$94
Exelixis Inc.	6	$88
Mirati Therapeutics, Inc.	4	$86
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	4	$79
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$78
Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$78
Stemline Therapeutics Inc.	3	$67
Blueprint Medicines Corporation	4	$61
CTI Biopharma Corp.	4	$61
Beone Medicines USA, Inc.	3	$56
Sobi, Inc	3	$55
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	3	$55
Pharmaessentia USA Corporation	2	$53
Gilead	2	$48
Macrogenics, Inc.	2	$47
Morphosys, US Inc.	2	$29
Genentech, Inc.	1	$26
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	1	$25
Geron Corporation	1	$24
Novocure Inc.	1	$23
Verastem, Inc.	1	$20
Myovant Sciences Inc.	1	$17
G1 Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$17
Tonix Medicines, Inc.	1	$15

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