Emerald Lassiter, PA
Surgical · Phoenix, AZNPI 1942911953
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,257 of the $2,655 with a category attached, or 85.0%. It is spread thinly across 26 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 11.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 99 payments — averaging $26.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$317
- Pfizer$303
- Medtronic$264
- Johnson & Johnson$246
- Bayer$200
- Urogen Pharma, Inc.$182
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$26410%
- Food & beverage$2,25785%
- Education$1355%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 14 | $317 |
| Pfizer | 14 | $303 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $264 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $246 |
| Bayer | 4 | $200 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 7 | $182 |
| AbbVie | 8 | $159 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $124 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $116 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $100 |
| Merck | 3 | $71 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 3 | $70 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| Novartis | 2 | $56 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $55 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $53 |
| BD | 2 | $42 |
| Cycle Pharmaceuticals Inc | 2 | $39 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $35 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $32 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $22 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 1 | $15 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- INTERSTIM$259
- Xofigo$142
- DAVINCI XI$100
How this compares
$2,655 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 271 surgical providers in Arizona.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl | 12 | $152 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 15 | $137 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 13 | $94 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 14 | $91 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 15 | $81 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical in Phoenix
- Karla FrickPhoenix$38K
- Christina CudzewiczPhoenix$7K
- Sarah MullerPhoenix$6K
- Britni FergusonPhoenix$6K
- Tyler KnudsenPhoenix$5K
- Anna LyonsPhoenix$4K
- Christina FriehPhoenix$4K
- Margaret HuntPhoenix$3K
- Richard BassettPhoenix$3K
- Lisa ReinertsonPhoenix$3K
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.