Arely Mendez Ponce
Nurse Practitioner · Englewood, CONPI 1700456282
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,241 of the $1,852 with a category attached, or 67.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 72.4% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,341, more than ten times the $124 reported in 2021. Among nurse practitioner clinicians in CO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 21 payments — averaging $88.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$160
- Smith+Nephew$142
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$111
- Kerecis Limited$38
- KCI USA, Inc.$28
- plus $31 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,24167%
- Food & beverage$51128%
- Education$1005%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 8 | $1,341 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $160 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $142 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $111 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $38 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $13 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,192
- Versajet$115
- RECELL$111
- DAVINCI XI$100
How this compares
$1,852 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,384 nurse practitioner providers in Colorado.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 51 | $746 |
| Methocarbamol | 60 | $641 |
| Pregabalin | 23 | $323 |
| Methylprednisolone | 37 | $279 |
| Gabapentin | 21 | $213 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 29 | $176 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 13 | $173 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 34 | $128 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 13 | $103 |
| Meloxicam | 18 | $36 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in Englewood
- Victoria SegroEnglewood$29K
- Nicolle SchraederEnglewood$15K
- Katherine FreemanEnglewood$5K
- Terri Webber MillerEnglewood$4K
- Deborah HinnenColorado Springs$388K
- Christina HansonLone Tree$381K
- Kara HartPueblo$142K
- Amy SidorskiAurora$97K
- Lori WenzGrand Junction$54K
- Lisa KeithColorado Springs$52K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.