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Melinda Janelle Rhea, APRN, FNP-C, IBCLC

Individual provider Registered Nurse · NPI 1487100327

Melinda Janelle Rhea, APRN, FNP-C, IBCLC is a Nurse Practitioner in Lincoln, Nebraska. Qualified in 2019, 7 years ago. Practices with Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado, a 1,266-clinician group, works from 2 locations and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in Colorado and Nebraska.

Years since qualifying
7
Licensed in
CO, NE
In the registry since
2016
Specialties on file
3
What do these letters mean?
APRN — Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
The umbrella licence covering nurse practitioners, midwives, anaesthetists and clinical nurse specialists.
FNP-C — Family Nurse Practitioner, Certified
A family nurse practitioner certified by the AANP.

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Practice location Address checks out

7001 A St Ste 200
Lincoln, NE 68510-4205
Phone: (140) 277-0456
Fax: (402) 423-6422
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Additional practice locations (1)

  • 1263 Lake Plaza Dr Ste 230, Colorado Springs, CO 80906-3512 — (719) 776-3300

Specialties & licences

Family Nurse Practitioner (primary) Taxonomy 363LF0000X · Licence 114011 (NE)
Registered Nurse Taxonomy 163W00000X · Licence 62902 (NE)
Family Nurse Practitioner Taxonomy 363LF0000X · Licence C-APN.0104343-C-NP (CO)

Record details

NPI number1487100327
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderFemale
Credentials APRN , FNP-C , IBCLC
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedAugust 31, 2016
Last updated in NPPESDecember 30, 2025
Certification dateDecember 30, 2025

Medicare enrollment

From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is enrolled in Medicare.

Medicare specialtyNURSE PRACTITIONER
Medical schoolOTHER
Graduated 2019 (7 years in practice)
Group practice Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado — 1266 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount
Practice locations2 on file with Medicare

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Medicare patients24
Services billed 100 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age67

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

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.

Food and Beverage $282 13 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee

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. Those with a page here are linked.

  • Chi Health St. Elizabeth Hospital · Lincoln, NE · listed as CHI Health St Elizabeth
  • Centura Health-Penrose St Francis Health Services Hospital · Colorado Springs, CO

Colleagues at Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 1266 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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