Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Melchor Lim

Cardiovascular Disease Stillwater, OK Medical Doctor

NPI 1932147113 CMS profile 41665

1509 W 8Th Ave, Stillwater, OK 74074

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General payments

$5,940

386 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Melchor Lim of Stillwater, OK is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $5,940 across 386 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 72nd percentile of Cardiovascular Disease profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $431 28
2024 General $845 47
2023 General $675 47
2022 General $1,061 65
2021 General $1,077 67
2020 General $566 36
2019 General $1,286 96

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Melchor Lim
  • Cardiovascular Disease median
  • Middle half of Cardiovascular Disease
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Melchor Lim were reported at $431. Among 16,617 Cardiovascular Disease profiles paid that year, the median was $432 and the middle half received between $132 and $1,252.

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Year Melchor Lim Cardiovascular Disease median Middle half National median
2019 $1,286 $450 $127–$1,392 $163
2020 $566 $242 $77–$751 $114
2021 $1,077 $335 $101–$1,037 $132
2022 $1,061 $395 $121–$1,211 $149
2023 $675 $443 $136–$1,283 $160
2024 $845 $450 $136–$1,323 $164
2025 $431 $432 $132–$1,252 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $1,238 79 payments
  2. Pfizer Inc. $877 58 payments
  3. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $603 43 payments
  4. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $438 38 payments
  5. Amarin Pharma Inc. $386 30 payments
  6. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $378 25 payments
  7. Abbott Laboratories $354 21 payments
  8. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $159 10 payments
  9. ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $151 10 payments
  10. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $137 9 payments
  11. Other $1,219 63 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $5,865 382 payments
  2. Education $76 4 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. ENTRESTO $661 37 payments
  2. XARELTO $603 43 payments
  3. ELIQUIS Cardiovascular;Metabolic Disease $482 33 payments
  4. VERQUVO $452 30 payments
  5. VYNDAQEL $316 24 payments
  6. LEQVIO Cardiology/Vascular Diseases $272 24 payments
  7. Vascepa $267 19 payments
  8. ELIQUIS Cardiovascular $256 23 payments
  9. LEQVIO Cardiovascular $226 13 payments
  10. CAMZYOS $182 15 payments
  11. Other $2,261 133 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 · 57 drugs

Part D claims

6,976

Median for Cardiology: 2,533

Drug cost

$736,833

Median for Cardiology: $485,213

Branded share of claims

19.4%

Median for Cardiology: 25.7%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 393 $320,823
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 108 $114,075
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 77 $72,625
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 64 $57,154
Vascepa Icosapent Ethyl Brand 50 $20,151
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 36 $16,683
Icosapent Ethyl Generic 46 $11,779
Ezetimibe Generic 407 $9,623
Rosuvastatin Calcium Generic 592 $8,672
Brilinta Ticagrelor Brand 16 $8,032

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 57 counted.

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 18,782 Part D prescribers listed as Cardiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 59 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$170,156

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

1,183

Average age 77

Services billed

5,563

616 women, 567 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 75%
Ischemic heart disease 54%
Arthritis 54%
Heart failure 43%
Diabetes 34%
Atrial fibrillation 33%
Depression 26%
COPD 25%

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 11 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
LEQVIO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $108
$108 — —
ELIQUIS
  • PFIZER INC. $90
$90 393 —
VYNDAMAX
  • PFIZER INC. $78
$78 — —
VERQUVO
  • Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $74
$74 — —
AMVUTTRA
  • Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. $73
$73 — —

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

386 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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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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