RxDoctor Payments Data

Howard Laroche, MD

Neurology · Lake Jackson, TXNPI 1487635595

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,558in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 84 payments — averaging $18.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$510
  • Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$205
  • Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$146
  • Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc$129
  • Genentech USA, Inc.$85
  • Boston Scientific$67
  • plus $417 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,558100%

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

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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.

How this compares

$1,558 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,246 neurology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$44,420
Medicare patients
264
Services billed
587

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Rivastigmine184$26,215
Aimovig AutoinjectorErenumab-Aooe24$22,689
UbrelvyUbrogepant13$13,356
LamictalLamotrigine13$8,971
Galantamine Hbr98$6,352
Levetiracetam76$3,612
RivastigmineRivastigmine Tartrate49$2,061
Divalproex Sodium75$1,811
Memantine Hcl54$1,701
Gabapentin125$1,456
Primidone66$1,449
Carbidopa-LevodopaCarbidopa/Levodopa95$1,078
Galantamine ErGalantamine Hbr11$1,021
Pyridostigmine Bromide16$1,008
Frovatriptan Succinate12$970

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
AbbVieUbrelvy$510$13,35613 claims
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLCTopiramate$18$50673 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 40th percentile of 1,246 neurology providers in Texas.

Other neurology in Lake Jackson

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