Michael Newton Melson, MD

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician.

• Highlands Cashiers Hospital Hospital · Highlands, NC · listed as Highlands-Cashiers Hospital
• Transylvania Regional Hospital, Inc Hospital · Brevard, NC · listed as Mh Transylvania Regional Hospital, LLLP

Colleagues at Emergeortho PA

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 724 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Taylor Caroline Burgess Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Wilmington, NC
• Connor Patrick Cleveland, DPT Physical Therapist · Apex, NC
• Jeffery Keith Ebner, PT, DPT Physical Therapist · Leland, NC
• Paul Jason Kerner, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · Durham, NC
• Hannah Grace Perryman, PT, DPT Physical Therapist · Leland, NC
• Kenneth John Ramsauer, PA-C Physician Assistant · Raleigh, NC
• Dr. Erin Robyn Robles-Sherman, DPM Podiatrist · Durham, NC
• Annalarsa Walker Russ, MPT Physical Therapist · Morganton, NC
• Sheridyn Redding Tolbert, OTD Occupational Therapist · Morganton, NC
• Eric M Tupis, PA Surgical Physician Assistant · Raleigh, NC
• Mr. Ralph Edwin Wilson Jr., PA-C Physician Assistant · Smithfield, NC
• Dr. David William Zub, MD Anesthesiology Physician · Leland, NC