Frank Lacqua, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Staten Island, NYNPI 1154395507
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 18 payments — averaging $18.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$124
- Vertex$46
- Braintree Laboratories, Inc.$41
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$40
- GSK$23
- TELA Bio, Inc.$21
- plus $31 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$327100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $124 |
| Vertex | 1 | $46 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $40 |
| GSK | 1 | $23 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $17 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$327 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 177 colon & rectal surgery providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mesalamine | 26 | $14,326 |
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 43 | $2,555 |
| Hydrocortisone | 320 | $1,529 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 51 | $640 |
| Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg | 16 | $308 |
| SsdSilver Sulfadiazine | 26 | $277 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 15 | $172 |
| Silver Sulfadiazine | 32 | $171 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Staten Island
- David RivadeneiraWoodbury$271K
- Jerald WishnerMount Kisco$246K
- Joseph TerlizziNew York$245K
- Sanghyun KimNew York$154K
- Richard WhelanNew York$120K
- Jeffrey MilsomNew York$107K
- Ziad KronfolWest Nyack$81K
- Lynn OconnorHuntington$63K
- Mehraneh JafariNew York$50K
- Jennifer AgnewNew York$41K
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.