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

CHRISTEN R MELLANO

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Orthopaedic Surgery

NPI
1396980074
CMS profile
1302879
Location
TORRANCE, CA

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$8,321.77

  • Reported across 93 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$424.99

20 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 $424.99 20

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Stryker Corporation $316.15 15
Smith & Nephew, Inc. $37.23 2
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $30.29 1
Linvatec Corporation $27.79 1
Orthofix Medical, Inc. $13.53 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $1,793.35 14
PY2019 $1,748.53 12
PY2020 $720.57 7
PY2021 $144.94 6
PY2022 $2,812.32 18
PY2023 $677.07 16
PY2024 $424.99 20

Payment records · PY2024 (20)

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
Linvatec Corporation $27.79 09/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1147087254 CMS
Orthofix Medical, Inc. $13.53 07/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1127587467 CMS
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $30.29 03/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1151241513 CMS
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $20.54 06/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1149501019 CMS
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $16.69 07/14/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1149501017 CMS
Stryker Corporation $22.75 01/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119914454 CMS
Stryker Corporation $21.28 01/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119914456 CMS
Stryker Corporation $3.78 01/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119914458 CMS
Stryker Corporation $18.14 01/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119914460 CMS
Stryker Corporation $25.86 03/14/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119914462 CMS
Stryker Corporation $14.68 03/28/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119914464 CMS
Stryker Corporation $24.75 05/02/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119914466 CMS
Stryker Corporation $5.13 05/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119914468 CMS
Stryker Corporation $13.25 06/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119914470 CMS
Stryker Corporation $104.77 06/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119914472 CMS
Stryker Corporation $5.39 07/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119914474 CMS
Stryker Corporation $23.49 08/20/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119914476 CMS
Stryker Corporation $12.94 09/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119914478 CMS
Stryker Corporation $16.83 10/01/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119914480 CMS
Stryker Corporation $3.11 10/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119914482 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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