Vanessa Salinas
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner · Houston, TX
Vanessa Salinas is an acute care nurse practitioner with a practice address in Houston, Texas, and NPI 1962262378, issued on Mar 21, 2024. Check the license (Texas 1155431, as entered in NPPES) with the Texas board that licenses this profession; the Medicare figures below come from public CMS files.
- Name
- Vanessa Salinas
- Primary taxonomy
- Acute Care Nurse Practitioner 363LA2100X
- License number
- 1155431 TX
Self-reported in NPPES; status is on the state search - Practice location
- 5115 Fannin St Ste 801, Houston, TX 77004
- Phone
- (713) 790-0841
- Enumerated
- Mar 21, 2024
- Record last updated
- Apr 15, 2026
- Medicare enrollment
- Enrolled (PECOS I20240616000049); accepts Medicare assignment
- Entity
- Type 1 · individual
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Also registered at 5115 Fannin St Ste 801
A shared address usually means a shared clinic or building; it does not show who employs whom.
- Kimberly Albright, NPAcute Care Nurse Practitioner1760657043
- Abhijeet Basu, MDCardiovascular Disease Physician1902853666
- Sanket Borgaonkar, M.D.Interventional Cardiology Physician1720408032
- Melissa Carranza, ACNPAcute Care Nurse Practitioner1700882511
- Mohamed El-Beheary, M.D., FACCCardiovascular Disease Physician1275578544
- Donald Foster, RN,APRN,ACNPAcute Care Nurse Practitioner1811363286
Verify Vanessa Salinas in five checks
- 1IdentityNPI record in CMS NPPESNPI lookupConfirmed in NPPES
- 2LicenseActive license and public ordersWhich Texas board licenses this profession
Search for license 1155431Check the board - 3Other statesLicenses and actions elsewhereDocInfo (FSMB)Not checked
- 4ExclusionsMedicare and Medicaid bansHHS-OIG exclusion listNot checked
- 5CertificationBoard certificationABMS AOA NCCPA AANPNot checked
82% fewer Medicare Part D claims than the average acute care nurse practitioner in 2024
109 Medicare Part D claims for 41 beneficiaries, against an average of 594 among the 13,133 providers of this specialty who prescribed in Part D.
Most prescribed
- Amiodarone Hcl27 claims
- Clopidogrel21 claims
- Metoprolol Tartrate19 claims
- Atorvastatin Calcium13 claims
Source: CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers by Provider and Drug, 2024 (data.cms.gov). Part D covers prescriptions for Medicare patients only; drugs with fewer than 11 claims are not published.
Industry payments in 2024: $706.75
16 payments; by number, the most common kind was food and beverage; the largest payer was Edwards Lifesciences Corporation. The 10,984 providers of this specialty with any payment received $647.94 on average. Payments are reported by manufacturers, not by the provider, and are not a sign of wrongdoing.
Source: CMS Open Payments, program year 2024 (openpaymentsdata.cms.gov); average among providers of this specialty with at least one payment.
Bills Medicare through one group practice
- Surgical Specialists OF Clear Lake PLLCWebster, TX
Source: CMS Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (the group practices a clinician bills Medicare through) (data.cms.gov).
Vanessa Salinas among 3,239 acute care nurse practitioner records in Texas
Vanessa Salinas is one of 3,239 acute care nurse practitioner records with a practice address in Texas. 78% of them appear in a Medicare file (Part D prescribing, MIPS, Open Payments or Medicare group billing); this one does. Its NPI, issued in 2024, is newer than 81% of them.
- NPI issued2024 · 81% of these records are older, 11% newer
- In a Medicare fileYes · 78% of these records are
- In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians fileYes · 65% of these records are
- Graduated2023 · median 2019 among the 2,120 with a school on file
- Record last updated2026 · 34% of these records were not updated in five years or more
Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026, every record with primary taxonomy 363LA2100X and a Texas practice address; Medicare files: CMS Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024, Doctors and Clinicians (data.cms.gov).
712 acute care nurse practitioner records list a practice address in Houston
They are 712 of the 61,221 NPPES records with a practice address in Houston, and 3,239 acute care nurse practitioner records in Texas.
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The 8 acute care nurse practitioner records with the nearest ZIP codes
- Kimberly Albright, NPHouston, TX 770041760657043
- Melissa Carranza, ACNPHouston, TX 770041700882511
- Anoop Chacko, AGACNP-BCHouston, TX 770041407560352
- Donald Foster, RN,APRN,ACNPHouston, TX 770041811363286
- Alicia Galvez, NPHouston, TX 770041891137279
- Tiana Gronberg-Carey, ACNPHouston, TX 770041437117165
- Sallie Humphries, APRN, ACNP-BCHouston, TX 770041578964318
- Glen Lanier, APRNHouston, TX 770041548917651
Common questions
What is Vanessa Salinas's NPI number?
Vanessa Salinas's National Provider Identifier (NPI) is 1962262378, issued on Mar 21, 2024. An NPI identifies a provider in billing; it is not a license.
Where is Vanessa Salinas located?
The NPPES record lists a practice address at 5115 Fannin St Ste 801, Houston, TX, 77004. Phone: (713) 790-0841. Providers update this record themselves, so call before visiting.
How can I verify Vanessa Salinas's license?
NPPES lists Texas license number 1155431, as entered by the provider. Search the Texas board that licenses this profession; the NPPES record confirms identity only.
How much does Vanessa Salinas prescribe under Medicare Part D?
In 2024, Vanessa Salinas had 109 Medicare Part D claims for 41 beneficiaries; the average among acute care nurse practitioner prescribers was 594. Part D covers Medicare prescriptions only.
Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov); NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy. Medicare files from data.cms.gov. An NPI identifies who bills; it is not a license.
Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of Aug 9, 2026.