Melissa Martz
Nurse Practitioner · Palo Alto, CANPI 1740945948
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 90 payments — averaging $44.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Livanova USA, Inc.$1K
- Genentech, Inc.$311
- Biogen$246
- Neurelis, Inc.$218
- PTC Therapeutics, Inc.$199
- Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc.$198
- plus $2K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$70017%
- Food & beverage$3,33283%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 16 | $1,275 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 3 | $311 |
| Biogen | 3 | $246 |
| Neurelis, Inc. | 5 | $218 |
| PTC Therapeutics, Inc. | 11 | $199 |
| Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $198 |
| UCB, Inc. | 7 | $160 |
| NS Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $155 |
| Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $152 |
| Monteris Medical Corporation | 1 | $137 |
| Novartis Gene Therapies, Inc. (fka Avexis, Inc.) | 2 | $128 |
| Argenx US, Inc. | 4 | $111 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $101 |
| Eisai Inc. | 4 | $80 |
| Immedica Pharma US, Inc. | 3 | $77 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $72 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 4 | $68 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $60 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $32 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Biocodex, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Metacel Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $19 |
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.
- VNS Therapy$981
- SPINRAZA$219
- EVRYSDI$215
- Neuroblate$137
- VILTEPSO$135
- VNS THERAPY SENTIVA MODEL 1000 GENERATOR$109
- ZOLGENSMA$104
- JORNAY PM$103
How this compares
$4,033 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 6,779 nurse practitioner providers in California.
Other nurse practitioner in Palo Alto
- Jong Mi LeePalo Alto$174K
- Carol BarchPalo Alto$76K
- Holly BernalPalo Alto$63K
- Lindsay MartinPalo Alto$37K
- Janice LuPalo Alto$27K
- Rhonda HewittStanford$917K
- Linda TrinhIrvine$899K
- Denise SinagaNorthridge$728K
- Debbie TaySanta Monica$642K
- Joe GorelickCampbell$638K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.