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Melanie Palm, MD

Basic profile

Dermatology

ORCIDNone on fileNPI
RegionSolana Beach, CA · WestSpecialtyDermatologyFocusDermatology
Active KOLfindmyKOL typefindmyKOL type: our influence ranking, shown when you reveal the full profileLatest publication2025Online presenceNot yet checkedPayments2021 onwardNIH fundingNot yet indexedWhy? →

Melanie Palm is a Dermatology physician. OpenAlex indexes 85 publications with 1,526 citations (h-index 21).

Overview

Scholarship

indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)
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85publications

Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex.

1,526citations

Total citations across indexed works.

21h-index

Hirsch index, productivity × impact (OpenAlex).

Clinical & industry

trials, payments and federal funding
15companies · 2021 onward

Companies reporting payments to CMS. Facts, not judgments.

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Contact

The practice address and phone this provider lists in the federal NPPES (CMS) registry.

Practice address

437 S. Highway 101
Suite# 217
Solana Beach, CA 920752221

Telephone

858-792-7546

Registry record last updated 6 Dec 2012.

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Industry payments

15 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:

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Payment records matched to this physician's NPI in CMS Open Payments, program years 2021 onward.

Medicare prescribing footprint (2024)

The drugs this prescriber writes for Medicare patients, grouped by drug class and therapeutic area. Every percentage is a share of their total prescribing, so you can see what they prescribe most. These are proportions, not patient counts or dollar amounts. No condition is inferred: the claims record what was prescribed, never why.

  • Anti-infectives

    52.6%
    Tetracycline-class Drug23.4%
    Doxycycline Hyclate100%
    Part D24 patients
    Herpesvirus Nucleoside Analog DNA Polymerase Inhibitor21.2%
    Valacyclovir100%
    Part D22 patients

    + 1 more class in this area

  • Dermatology

    36.5%
    Antivirals21.9%
    Imiquimod100%
    Part D20 patients
    Corticosteroid14.6%
    Triamcinolone acetonide100%
    Part B, office-administered14 patients
  • Respiratory

    10.9%
    Corticosteroid10.9%
    Mometasone Furoate100%
    Part D15 patients
Where care is delivered (Part B)0% facility · 100% office

Drug classes come from the WHO ATC and U.S. National Library of Medicine (RxClass) classifications; prescribing counts come from the CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers file. Each drug is counted once, under its primary class. Medicare fee-for-service only, so no Medicare Advantage, commercial, or pediatric prescribing is included. CMS publishes this data about 17 months after the fact.

Publications

Matched to this physician's OpenAlex author record; most-cited works shown first.

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