Joseph Lacy
Neurology · Palo Alto, CANPI 1568570166
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 184 payments — averaging $597.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biogen$41K
- Genentech, Inc.$24K
- Sanofi$21K
- EMD Serono, Inc.$11K
- Novartis$7K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$4K
- plus $2K from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$22,63326%
- Speaking & faculty fees$51,58660%
- Travel & lodging$7,0978%
- Food & beverage$4,7476%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Biogen | 28 | $41,435 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 17 | $23,965 |
| Sanofi | 28 | $21,102 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 60 | $11,042 |
| Novartis | 14 | $6,698 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $3,706 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 6 | $1,065 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 20 | $466 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $399 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 3 | $131 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $18 |
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
$110,028 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,996 neurology providers in California.
Other neurology in Palo Alto
- Lawrence RechtPalo Alto$6.6M
- Lawrence SteinmanPalo Alto$2.7M
- Timothy CloughesyLos Angeles$33.1M
- Jack FlorinFullerton$13M
- David KudrowSanta Monica$12.8M
- John Ravitsla Jolla$8.4M
- Perminder BhatiaFresno$8.3M
- Perry ShiehLos Angeles$8.2M
- Benjamin FrishbergCarlsbad$8.2M
- Bruce CreeSan Francisco$8M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.