Gary Wease, MD
Emergency Medicine · Leesville, LANPI 1538200381
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $859 of the $1,300 with a category attached, or 66.1%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 77.4% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,007 and has fallen 82.6% since, to $175 in 2025. Among emergency medicine clinicians in LA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 22 payments — averaging $59.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Corcept Therapeutics$75
- Intuitive Surgical$49
- Exact Sciences$33
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$24
- Avanos Medical$21
- plus $90 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$85966%
- Food & beverage$39230%
- Education$494%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 9 | $1,007 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 3 | $75 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $49 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $33 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $21 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $17 |
| THD America, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- AdvantageRib$856
How this compares
$1,300 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 881 emergency medicine providers in Louisiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 73 | $4,444 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 13 | $127 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other emergency medicine in Leesville
- Fred WillisShreveport$427K
- Bryant BoydShreveport$83K
- Thomas ArnoldShreveport$48K
- Noah PoresNew Orleans$34K
- Granville MorseNew Orleans$32K
- Claude DantonioNew Orleans$26K
- Guy LefortCut Off$24K
- Mark DemanuelleDonaldsonville$22K
- Mace ScottBogalusa$17K
- Lisa FortNew Orleans$12K
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.