Who Paid My Doc
Melissa Cushing
Clinical Pathology/Laboratory Medicine New York, NY Medical Doctor
NPI 1316024839 CMS profile 149530
525 E 68Th St, Box 69, New York, NY 10021
General payments
$139,186
Research payments
$17,495
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$861,246
Through program year 2025, Melissa Cushing of New York, NY is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $139,186 across 106 general payments and $17,495 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $861,246 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than 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. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 97th percentile of Clinical Pathology/Laboratory Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
12 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $52,262 | 33 | |
| 2024 | General | $18,263 | 16 | |
| 2023 | General | $40,449 | 38 | |
| 2023 | Research | $2,475 | 2 | |
| 2022 | General | $4,371 | 6 | |
| 2022 | Research | $933 | 4 | |
| 2021 | General | $9,350 | 4 | |
| 2021 | Research | $4,550 | 8 | |
| 2020 | General | $7,700 | 3 | |
| 2020 | Research | $5,338 | 7 | |
| 2019 | General | $6,790 | 6 | |
| 2019 | Research | $4,200 | 5 |
Beside peers
- Melissa Cushing
- Clinical Pathology/Laboratory Medicine median
- Middle half of Clinical Pathology/Laboratory Medicine
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Melissa Cushing were reported at $52,262. Among 206 Clinical Pathology/Laboratory Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $114 and the middle half received between $43 and $2,190.
Show as a table
| Year | Melissa Cushing | Clinical Pathology/Laboratory Medicine median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $6,790 | $100 | $25–$525 | $163 |
| 2020 | $7,700 | $127 | $24–$3,383 | $114 |
| 2021 | $9,350 | $124 | $28–$2,259 | $132 |
| 2022 | $4,371 | $100 | $36–$1,512 | $149 |
| 2023 | $40,449 | $125 | $30–$797 | $160 |
| 2024 | $18,263 | $127 | $30–$1,800 | $164 |
| 2025 | $52,262 | $114 | $43–$2,190 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 2 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$1,038
Medicare patients
21
Services billed
22
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 62% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 57% | |
| Heart failure | 52% |
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.
Records
132 reportedEvery 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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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.