Catherine Lucas, MD
Dermatology · Northport, ALNPI 1841240363
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 602 payments — averaging $17.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$3K
- Novartis$2K
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$558
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$545
- LEO Pharma Inc.$539
- Pfizer$431
- plus $4K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$10,458100%
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(2 entities) | 151 | $2,686 |
| Novartis | 103 | $1,549 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 37 | $558 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 25 | $545 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 29 | $539 |
| Pfizer | 33 | $431 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 33 | $429 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 26 | $416 |
| Amgen | 24 | $412 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 20 | $365 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 17 | $330 |
| Sanofi | 14 | $320 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 16 | $303 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $271 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 12 | $198 |
| Incyte Corporation | 8 | $166 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 7 | $163 |
| UCB, Inc. | 4 | $112 |
| Almirall LLC | 6 | $93 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 6 | $91 |
| VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Organon | 3 | $51 |
| Helsinn Therapeutics (U.S.), Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Aclaris Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| EPI Health, LLC | 2 | $23 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $16 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Taro Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Mission Pharmacal Company | 1 | $13 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
How this compares
$10,458 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 168 dermatology providers in Alabama.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Cosentyx Sensoready (2 Pens)Secukinumab | 53 | $387,974 |
| Skyrizi PenRisankizumab-Rzaa | 14 | $282,918 |
| Dupixent PenDupilumab | 45 | $190,607 |
| Cosentyx Unoready PenSecukinumab | 11 | $147,063 |
| Dupixent SyringeDupilumab | 30 | $121,044 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 154 | $5,616 |
| CiclopiroxCiclopirox Olamine | 132 | $2,634 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 110 | $2,244 |
| Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate | 37 | $1,373 |
| Metronidazole | 22 | $1,305 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 146 | $1,291 |
| Tretinoin | 17 | $1,235 |
| Betamethasone Diprop AugmentedBetamethasone/Propylene Glyc | 47 | $1,228 |
| Desonide | 20 | $1,152 |
| Betamethasone Dipropionate | 20 | $661 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other dermatology in Northport
- Jeffery WeeksNorthport$15K
- Karen WalkerNorthport$8K
- Vlada GroysmanHoover$7.2M
- Boni ElewskiBirmingham$5.5M
- James KrellBirmingham$4M
- John VanloockMobile$1.4M
- Tiffany MayoBirmingham$1.4M
- Melanie AppellBirmingham$983K
- Julie HarperBirmingham$920K
- Eric BaumGadsden$896K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.