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Covered recipient · General Payments record
MELANIE K KUECHLE
Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Dermatology
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General Payments · PY2020–2025
- CMS publication 2026-06-30
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By nature of payment
PY2025 · sorted by reported total
| Nature of payment | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|
| Grant | $10,000.00 | 1 |
| Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program | $2,604.00 | 1 |
| Food and Beverage | $1,903.45 | 87 |
By paying entity
PY2025 · sorted by reported total
| Paying entity | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|
| ABBVIE INC. | $10,470.91 | 20 |
| GENZYME CORPORATION | $2,827.26 | 11 |
| Janssen Biotech, Inc. | $389.24 | 27 |
| UCB, Inc. | $345.99 | 12 |
| SUN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES INC. | $94.06 | 2 |
| Amgen Inc. | $86.52 | 3 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | $80.98 | 4 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | $70.28 | 3 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC | $40.95 | 2 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.P. | $35.82 | 2 |
| NOVARTIS PHARMACEUTICALS CORPORATION | $27.61 | 1 |
| E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | $19.65 | 1 |
| Krystal Biotech Inc | $18.18 | 1 |
By program year
All program years on this page · sorted by year
Payment records · PY2025 (89)
Ordering applied by this site (date, newest first, then paying entity) · record values are shown as CMS published them
Source & provenance
- Dataset
- CMS Open Payments — General Payments
- Publisher of source data
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- CMS publication date
- 2026-06-30
- Program years on this page
- 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
- Generated from
- OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2025_P06302026_06032026.csv
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Cite this record.
Permalink https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1184700981
- Plain
- MELANIE K KUECHLE, NPI 1184700981. IndustryPayments, data edition 2026-07-26T04:22:22Z. https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1184700981.
- APA 7
- IndustryPayments. (2026). MELANIE K KUECHLE, NPI 1184700981 (Data edition 2026-07-26T04:22:22Z) [Data set]. https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1184700981
- Bluebook
- MELANIE K KUECHLE, NPI 1184700981, IndustryPayments (data edition 2026-07-26T04:22:22Z), https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1184700981.
Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Open Payments.