William Melvin
Physician Assistant · Johnson City, TNNPI 1275517054
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 23 payments — averaging $63.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$951
- Intuitive Surgical$310
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$63
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$52
- Radius Health, Inc.$33
- Johnson & Johnson$32
- plus $14 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$98568%
- Food & beverage$47132%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 8 | $951 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $310 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $63 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $52 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $32 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Iovera$770
- Da Vinci Surgical System$304
How this compares
$1,456 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 2,404 physician assistant providers in Tennessee.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Naloxone Hcl | 59 | $3,411 |
| Celecoxib | 140 | $1,985 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 184 | $1,770 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 209 | $1,266 |
| Methocarbamol | 130 | $1,052 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 99 | $969 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 127 | $813 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 59 | $806 |
| Methylprednisolone | 47 | $441 |
| Ibandronate Sodium | 12 | $383 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 92 | $309 |
| Meloxicam | 59 | $278 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 16 | $210 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 28 | $209 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 13 | $191 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Johnson City
- Lindsey NixKnoxville$576K
- Anna KerseySavannah$399K
- Jason HenryNashville$329K
- Brie ChandlerNashville$317K
- Loree EasleyBartlett$209K
- Katherine RunyanKnoxville$156K
- John KramerNashville$125K
- Robert LaughertyAlcoa$122K
- Elisabeth BennettNashville$109K
- Whitney GatewoodMemphis$104K
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.