Melanie Morris
Nurse Practitioner · Houston, TXNPI 1548347636
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $248,638 of the $254,100 with a category attached, or 97.9%. Galderma Laboratories, L.p. accounts for 99.5% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among nurse practitioner clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 233 payments — averaging $1090.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$253K
- AbbVie$1K
- Revance Therapeutics, Inc.$121
- Boston Scientific$27
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7540%
- Speaking & faculty fees$248,63898%
- Travel & lodging$2,3071%
- Food & beverage$2,4011%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 208 | $252,744 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 20 | $1,209 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $121 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $27 |
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.
- BOTOX$670
How this compares
$254,100 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 5,422 nurse practitioner providers in Texas.
Other nurse practitioner in Houston
- Julie WeatherlyHouston$87K
- Katrina KingHouston$44K
- Allison TurnerHouston$37K
- Tiffany RichardsHouston$37K
- Bianca CaloHouston$36K
- Arby CohenHouston$23K
- Virginia MarxHouston$19K
- Hermeyone BellHouston$17K
- Cecilia DavisAustin$262K
- Stephanie BrownHarlingen$235K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.