Melissa Cortez, DO
Neurology · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1336311307
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $2,025 of the $2,495 with a category attached, or 81.2%. Eli Lilly accounts for 98.8% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest.
Across 4 payments — averaging $623.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Eli Lilly$2K
- ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$30
Across 2 payments — averaging $72,226 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Amgen$144K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,02581%
- Travel & lodging$38715%
- Food & beverage$833%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Eli Lilly | 3 | $2,465 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
How this compares
$2,495 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 157 neurology providers in Utah.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pyridostigmine Bromide | 12 | $1,152 |
| Midodrine Hcl | 12 | $797 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurology in Salt Lake City
- Timothy WestSalt Lake City$856K
- Stacey SteevesSalt Lake City$548K
- Amir ArainSalt Lake City$329K
- Mark BrombergSalt Lake City$265K
- April ErwinSalt Lake City$263K
- Albert SmithSalt Lake City$122K
- John FoleySalt Lake City$99K
- Kevin BrennanSalt Lake City$81K
- Lucy DewittSalt Lake City$81K
- Nicholas JohnsonSalt Lake City$80K
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.