Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

STEVEN M MELCHER

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Family Medicine

NPI
1356314355
CMS profile
242531
Location
WEATHERFORD, TX

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$4,573.17

  • Reported across 329 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$399.67

23 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

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $399.67 23

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $1,268.03 102
PY2019 $1,286.55 94
PY2020 $311.21 22
PY2021 $294.14 19
PY2022 $550.39 34
PY2023 $463.18 35
PY2024 $399.67 23

Payment records · PY2024 (23)

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

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Abbott Laboratories $20.79 05/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125004657 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $19.30 11/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125004662 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $17.05 01/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105018900 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $18.25 05/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105018902 CMS
Amgen Inc. $20.54 02/01/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1117627908 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $14.23 03/28/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105679965 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $19.08 09/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104322416 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $13.54 11/21/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105879812 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $13.76 12/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104424867 CMS
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $23.37 05/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1117976000 CMS
Cranial Technologies, Inc $15.60 10/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1082223840 CMS
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. $17.35 04/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1129446568 CMS
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. $17.12 10/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1129446570 CMS
Exact Sciences Corporation $23.70 03/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1114784997 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $14.03 04/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1135433159 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $14.60 07/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1135434201 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $15.30 09/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1135433161 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $16.60 10/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1135422069 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $20.09 01/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1096779010 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $18.16 05/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1097737619 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $15.64 07/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1096838800 CMS
PFIZER INC. $14.20 10/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1131978153 CMS
Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $17.37 08/14/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153636604 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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