Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-06-30 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

ANDREW THOMAS MELCHER

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Psychiatry & Neurology Neurology

NPI
1205455631
CMS profile
11281308
Location
METAIRIE, LA

General Payments · PY2021–2025

$2,465.31

  • Reported across 96 records
  • CMS publication 2026-06-30

Latest program year · PY2025

$603.51

26 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $603.51 26

By paying entity

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2021 $208.86 8
PY2022 $291.23 14
PY2023 $829.82 25
PY2024 $531.89 23
PY2025 $603.51 26

Payment records · PY2025 (26)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2025 2021202220232024 Record-level detail is published for PY2025; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
ABBVIE INC. $24.51 09/17/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1203068980 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $25.52 10/24/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1203068982 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $16.39 11/19/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1203068984 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $27.91 11/25/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1203068986 CMS
Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $17.52 11/13/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1202983022 CMS
ARGENX US, INC. $21.00 04/29/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1240445835 CMS
ARGENX US, INC. $24.55 10/30/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1240452271 CMS
ARGENX US, INC. $36.34 11/17/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1240458487 CMS
ARGENX US, INC. $23.17 12/11/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1240459443 CMS
Eisai Inc. $18.28 12/09/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1244460360 CMS
Janssen Biotech, Inc. $16.61 11/04/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1174596363 CMS
Lundbeck LLC $22.24 03/17/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1251825000 CMS
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC $21.88 12/08/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1232556343 CMS
Neurelis, Inc. $28.00 09/04/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1219195959 CMS
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $25.29 09/29/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227414235 CMS
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $22.59 11/10/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1227414239 CMS
PFIZER INC. $20.08 10/15/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1230454875 CMS
PFIZER INC. $21.73 11/13/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1230947866 CMS
PFIZER INC. $16.37 12/17/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1231165843 CMS
Tanabe Pharma America, Inc. $22.56 01/27/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1243921760 CMS
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. $13.84 09/18/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1247334735 CMS
UCB, Inc. $31.03 02/24/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1224372188 CMS
UCB, Inc. $23.29 04/28/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1224372190 CMS
UCB, Inc. $32.79 05/19/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1224372192 CMS
UCB, Inc. $33.32 10/29/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1224372194 CMS
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. $16.70 12/09/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1232986385 CMS

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
2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024 , PY2025
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2025_P06302026_06032026.csv

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