Who Paid My Doc
Melody Russell
Nurse Practitioner, Acute Care Springfield, MO Nurse Practitioner
NPI 1114699923 CMS profile 11264890
222 E Primrose St Ste E, Springfield, MO 65807
General payments
$2,340
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2025, Melody Russell of Springfield, MO is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $2,340 across 70 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 Nurse Practitioner, Acute Care profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
4 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $106 | 5 | |
| 2024 | General | $1,460 | 30 | |
| 2023 | General | $588 | 30 | |
| 2022 | General | $187 | 5 |
Beside peers
- Melody Russell
- Nurse Practitioner, Acute Care median
- Middle half of Nurse Practitioner, Acute Care
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Melody Russell were reported at $106. Among 11,827 Nurse Practitioner, Acute Care profiles paid that year, the median was $152 and the middle half received between $48 and $458.
Show as a table
| Year | Melody Russell | Nurse Practitioner, Acute Care median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $0 | — | — | $163 |
| 2020 | $0 | — | — | $114 |
| 2021 | $0 | $123 | $38–$327 | $132 |
| 2022 | $187 | $130 | $44–$369 | $149 |
| 2023 | $588 | $144 | $49–$410 | $160 |
| 2024 | $1,460 | $146 | $48–$433 | $164 |
| 2025 | $106 | $152 | $48–$458 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 12 drugsPart D claims
1,189
Drug cost
$173,813
Branded share of claims
50.3%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ozempic Semaglutide | Brand | 89 | $88,133 | |
| Buprenorphine-Naloxone Buprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | Brand | 457 | $52,421 | |
| Mounjaro Tirzepatide | Brand | 24 | $26,065 | |
| Pregabalin | Generic | 100 | $2,833 | |
| Metformin Hcl | Generic | 96 | $1,541 | |
| Gabapentin | Generic | 112 | $1,049 | |
| Naloxone Hcl | Generic | 12 | $664 | |
| Ondansetron Odt Ondansetron | Brand | 28 | $374 | |
| Duloxetine Hcl | Generic | 15 | $369 | |
| Ibuprofen | Generic | 15 | $138 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 12 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 229,976 Part D prescribers listed as Nurse Practitioner; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Payments and prescribing
First 5 of 6 products · payments 2024Two 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.
| Product | Paid by | Related payments | Part D claims | Part B services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BELBUCA |
|
$66 | — | — |
| SPRAVATO |
|
$44 | — | — |
| REXULTI |
|
$22 | — | — |
| Kloxxado |
|
$20 | — | — |
| XTAMPZA |
|
$17 | — | — |
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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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.