Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2020–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Melanie Kuechle

Dermatology Edmonds, WA Medical Doctor

NPI 1184700981 CMS profile 53123

21727 76Th Ave W, Ste H, Edmonds, WA 98026

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General payments

$17,997

236 records reported · program years 2020–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2020–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Melanie Kuechle of Edmonds, WA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $17,997 across 236 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 87th percentile of Dermatology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

6 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $14,507 89
2024 General $1,843 76
2023 General $1,392 66
2022 General $165 3
2021 General $19 1
2020 General $70 1

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Melanie Kuechle
  • Dermatology median
  • Middle half of Dermatology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Melanie Kuechle were reported at $14,507. Among 10,363 Dermatology profiles paid that year, the median was $788 and the middle half received between $207 and $1,974.

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Year Melanie Kuechle Dermatology median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $454 $129–$1,240 $163
2020 $70 $235 $81–$756 $114
2021 $19 $377 $108–$1,108 $132
2022 $165 $514 $143–$1,391 $149
2023 $1,392 $607 $159–$1,674 $160
2024 $1,843 $751 $204–$1,903 $164
2025 $14,507 $788 $207–$1,974 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. AbbVie, Inc. $11,571 72 payments
  2. Genzyme Corporation $3,133 23 payments
  3. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $937 57 payments
  4. UCB, Inc. $653 20 payments
  5. Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. $289 17 payments
  6. Amgen Inc. $289 10 payments
  7. Dermavant Sciences, Inc. $158 6 payments
  8. Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC $125 1 payment
  9. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $125 1 payment
  10. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. $114 3 payments
  11. Other $602 26 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. Grant $10,000 1 payment
  2. Food and Beverage $5,323 233 payments
  3. 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 1 payment
  4. Education $70 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. SKYRIZI Immunology $10,362 15 payments
  2. DUPIXENT $3,259 29 payments
  3. TREMFYA $1,062 58 payments
  4. SKYRIZI Immunology $896 43 payments
  5. Bimzelx $630 19 payments
  6. RINVOQ $312 14 payments
  7. Zoryve $289 17 payments
  8. Otezla $289 10 payments
  9. VTAMA $158 6 payments
  10. SPEVIGO $125 1 payment
  11. Other $1,016 45 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 7 drugs

Part D claims

155

Median for Dermatology: 534

Drug cost

$9,161

Median for Dermatology: $67,151

Branded share of claims

8.4%

Median for Dermatology: 8.1%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Mycophenolate Mofetil Generic 15 $4,748
Clobetasol Propionate Generic 47 $1,836
Clotrimazole-Betamethasone Clotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip Brand 13 $1,317
Doxycycline Hyclate Generic 26 $727
Triamcinolone Acetonide Generic 27 $253
Ketoconazole Generic 12 $172
Prednisone Generic 15 $107

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 13,550 Part D prescribers listed as Dermatology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 30 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$58,392

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

186

Average age 77

Services billed

908

107 women, 79 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 57%
Arthritis 45%
Ischemic heart disease 20%
Osteoporosis 20%
Chronic kidney disease 18%
Cancer 18%
Atrial fibrillation 17%
Depression 15%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 19 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
SKYRIZI
$532 — —
Bimzelx
$284 — —
DUPIXENT
$229 — —
Zoryve
$208 — —
SPEVIGO
$125 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

236 reported

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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