Melissa Vallarta
Family · Laredo, TXNPI 1760195127
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 122 payments — averaging $17.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Corcept Therapeutics$369
- Novo Nordisk$346
- Lilly USA, LLC$284
- Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$213
- Amgen$166
- Boehringer Ingelheim$142
- plus $652 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,16099%
- Education$111%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Corcept Therapeutics | 24 | $369 |
| Novo Nordisk | 28 | $346 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 15 | $284 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 10 | $213 |
| Amgen | 9 | $166 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 8 | $142 |
| Cequr Corporation | 2 | $134 |
| Insulet Corporation | 4 | $74 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 4 | $72 |
| Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Inc | 2 | $60 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $52 |
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $42 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Merck | 1 | $20 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| BETA Bionics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Novartis | 1 | $19 |
| Sequel Med Tech, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $17 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| GSK | 1 | $16 |
How this compares
$2,172 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 15,456 family providers in Texas.
Other family in Laredo
- Lashonda CraneHouston$3.4M
- David WeirDallas$959K
- Luba YammineHouston$479K
- Robin BeachHouston$428K
- Nirupama JeromeAustin$418K
- April LopezMcAllen$417K
- Linda MercadoHouston$211K
- Sarah AguilarHouston$199K
- Sie ThomasDallas$197K
- Anna CastroSan Antonio$184K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.