Heather Bacala, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Las Vegas, NVNPI 1114281706
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,718 of the $6,512 with a category attached, or 72.4%. 34 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 34.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,261 and has fallen 82.6% since, to $394 in 2025.
Across 231 payments — averaging $28.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- AbbVie$2K
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$434
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$421
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$312
- Therapeuticsmd, Inc.$267
- plus $1K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$75512%
- Food & beverage$4,71872%
- Education$1,04016%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 7 | $2,260 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 80 | $1,583 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 14 | $434 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 27 | $421 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 15 | $312 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 18 | $267 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 9 | $139 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 5 | $104 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 6 | $103 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $99 |
| Lupin Inc. | 5 | $86 |
| Bayer | 4 | $75 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 3 | $61 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $58 |
| Minerva Surgical, Inc | 3 | $54 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Momentis Surgical Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Gynesonics, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $30 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Millicent US Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Abbott | 1 | $22 |
| Duchesnay USA Incorporated | 1 | $22 |
| Aspira Women's Health Inc | 1 | $21 |
| BD | 1 | $19 |
| Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $16 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Organon | 1 | $15 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
| Myovant Sciences 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
$6,512 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 308 obstetrics & gynecology providers in Nevada.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Estradiol | 38 | $2,132 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 15 | $901 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 12 | $588 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 11 | $187 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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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.