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

Melissa Go

Nephrology Phoenix, AZ Medical Doctor

NPI 1053305540 CMS profile 138771

337 E Coronado Rd, Suite 201, Phoenix, AZ 85004

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General payments

$4,666

232 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, Melissa Go of Phoenix, AZ is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $4,666 across 232 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 79th percentile of Nephrology 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 $696 26
2024 General $710 29
2023 General $1,172 65
2022 General $623 33
2021 General $591 33
2020 General $280 14
2019 General $594 32

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Melissa Go
  • Nephrology median
  • Middle half of Nephrology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Melissa Go were reported at $696. Among 8,186 Nephrology profiles paid that year, the median was $310 and the middle half received between $104 and $880.

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Year Melissa Go Nephrology median Middle half National median
2019 $594 $236 $90–$588 $163
2020 $280 $135 $46–$364 $114
2021 $591 $202 $67–$551 $132
2022 $623 $242 $77–$695 $149
2023 $1,172 $254 $84–$766 $160
2024 $710 $300 $99–$852 $164
2025 $696 $310 $104–$880 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $487 26 payments
  2. Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $478 27 payments
  3. OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC $352 20 payments
  4. Akebia Therapeutics Inc $345 14 payments
  5. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $328 22 payments
  6. Amgen Inc. $308 17 payments
  7. Retrophin, Inc. $230 12 payments
  8. Horizon Therapeutics plc $207 13 payments
  9. Relypsa, Inc. $199 9 payments
  10. Daiichi Sankyo Inc. $153 7 payments
  11. Other $1,579 65 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $4,516 225 payments
  2. Education $150 7 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. JYNARQUE Nephrology $457 24 payments
  2. Kerendia $328 22 payments
  3. RAYALDEE $315 18 payments
  4. Auryxia $248 11 payments
  5. FARXIGA $214 11 payments
  6. KRYSTEXXA $207 13 payments
  7. BENLYSTA $148 9 payments
  8. LOKELMA $142 8 payments
  9. JYNARQUE Nephrology $135 8 payments
  10. LUPKYNIS $127 6 payments
  11. Other $1,981 97 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 · 39 drugs

Part D claims

1,945

Median for Nephrology: 954

Drug cost

$169,980

Median for Nephrology: $127,050

Branded share of claims

12.6%

Median for Nephrology: 17.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 89 $68,974
Lokelma Sodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate Brand 34 $28,622
Kerendia Finerenone Brand 18 $15,421
Veltassa Patiromer Calcium Sorbitex Brand 13 $13,622
Sevelamer Carbonate Generic 54 $10,583
Cinacalcet Hcl Generic 21 $5,481
Paricalcitol Generic 43 $4,589
Hydralazine Hcl Generic 99 $1,956
Potassium Citrate Er Potassium Citrate Brand 15 $1,684
Calcitriol Generic 80 $1,668

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 39 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 9,003 Part D prescribers listed as Nephrology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 48 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$164,677

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

464

Average age 74

Services billed

3,542

255 women, 209 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%
Chronic kidney disease 75%
Diabetes 53%
Arthritis 48%
Ischemic heart disease 44%
Heart failure 35%
Atrial fibrillation 30%
Depression 24%

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 17 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
JYNARQUE
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $58
  • Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. $25
$83 — —
KRYSTEXXA
  • Amgen Inc. $57
$57 — —
RAYALDEE
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC $55
$55 — —
JARDIANCE
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $26
  • Lilly USA, LLC $18
$44 — —
INJECTAFER
  • Daiichi Sankyo Inc. $30
$30 — —

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

232 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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