Melissa Mendez
Obstetrics & Gynecology · El Paso, TXNPI 1427269489
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 73 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 19 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 73 payments — averaging $20.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$252
- Bayer$226
- Intuitive Surgical$160
- Organon$154
- Coloplast$95
- Coopersurgical, Inc.$85
- plus $537 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,509100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 10 | $252 |
| Bayer | 12 | $226 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $160 |
| Organon | 11 | $154 |
| Coloplast | 4 | $95 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 6 | $85 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $58 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 3 | $57 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $53 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $53 |
| Merck | 3 | $51 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 3 | $47 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 3 | $46 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $36 |
| Minerva Surgical, Inc | 2 | $32 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $31 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $22 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 1 | $18 |
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$160
- Orilissa$100
How this compares
$1,509 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 3,099 obstetrics & gynecology providers in Texas.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in El Paso
- Robert AsgharianEl Paso$366K
- Mario NutisEl Paso$69K
- Michiel NoeEl Paso$51K
- Devin GarzaAustin$2M
- Shawn TassoneAustin$1.3M
- Dale StovallDallas$590K
- Karyn-Anne CumberbatchMissouri City$452K
- Catherine HansenWebster$357K
- Lisa JukesBee Cave$270K
- Susan CrockettLive Oak$269K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.