Who Paid My Doc
Melissa Wells
Rheumatology Ames, IA Medical Doctor
NPI 1134440886 CMS profile 1107650
3500 University Blvd, Ames, IA 50010
General payments
$40
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2023, Melissa Wells of Ames, IA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $40 across 2 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 5th percentile of Rheumatology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
2 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | General | $26 | 1 | |
| 2022 | General | $14 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Melissa Wells
- Rheumatology median
- Middle half of Rheumatology
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Melissa Wells were reported at $0. Among 4,454 Rheumatology profiles paid that year, the median was $903 and the middle half received between $171 and $2,775.
Show as a table
| Year | Melissa Wells | Rheumatology median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $0 | $744 | $153–$2,687 | $163 |
| 2020 | $0 | $462 | $98–$2,027 | $114 |
| 2021 | $0 | $531 | $101–$2,153 | $132 |
| 2022 | $14 | $627 | $125–$2,303 | $149 |
| 2023 | $26 | $741 | $145–$2,524 | $160 |
| 2024 | $0 | $830 | $166–$2,660 | $164 |
| 2025 | $0 | $903 | $171–$2,775 | $169 |
Breakdown
Prescribing to Medicare patients
Part D · data year 2024 · 34 drugsPart D claims
3,610
Drug cost
$1,357,425
Branded share of claims
26.6%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humira(Cf) Pen Adalimumab | Brand | 62 | $539,987 | |
| Enbrel Sureclick Etanercept | Brand | 37 | $286,051 | |
| Xeljanz Xr Tofacitinib Citrate | Brand | 40 | $230,034 | |
| Rinvoq Upadacitinib | Brand | 16 | $118,333 | |
| Humira(Cf) Adalimumab | Brand | 12 | $88,718 | |
| Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate | Generic | 518 | $21,539 | |
| Methotrexate Methotrexate Sodium | Brand | 716 | $19,768 | |
| Leflunomide | Generic | 319 | $13,850 | |
| Cevimeline Hcl | Generic | 37 | $6,295 | |
| Pilocarpine Hcl | Generic | 65 | $5,122 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 34 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 5,224 Part D prescribers listed as Rheumatology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 94 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$1,332,726
Medicare patients
611
Services billed
79,787
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Arthritis | 75% | |
| High blood pressure | 69% | |
| Osteoporosis | 31% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 27% | |
| Diabetes | 22% | |
| Depression | 22% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 21% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 17% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Injection, romosozumab-aqqg, 1 mg J3111 | Office | 14 | 11,760 | $102,006 |
| Injection, infliximab, excludes biosimilar, 10 mg J1745 | Office | 15 | 3,300 | $82,312 |
| Injection, denosumab, 1 mg J0897 | Office | 35 | 3,300 | $67,780 |
| Injection, zoledronic acid, 1 mg J3489 | Office | 25 | 125 | $577 |
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
2 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.