Kevin Guidry, MD
Dermatology · Lake Charles, LANPI 1407848146
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 62 payments — averaging $19.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$312
- Johnson & Johnson$272
- AbbVie$206
- Hill Dermaceuticals, Inc.$116
- Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc.$111
- Incyte Corporation$104
- plus $80 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$94379%
- Education$25721%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 33 | $312 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $272 |
| AbbVie | 15 | $206 |
| Hill Dermaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $104 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Strata Skin Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $18 |
| Amgen | 1 | $15 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
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
$1,200 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 189 dermatology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Betamethasone Diprop AugmentedBetamethasone/Propylene Glyc | 66 | $3,249 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 45 | $1,918 |
| Ketoconazole | 86 | $1,284 |
| Fluorouracil | 15 | $1,004 |
| Fluocinonide | 27 | $925 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 27 | $852 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 25 | $746 |
| Minocycline Hcl | 38 | $622 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 56 | $594 |
| Imiquimod | 21 | $492 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 20 | $398 |
| Desonide | 12 | $343 |
| Ciclopirox | 16 | $342 |
| Acyclovir | 12 | $331 |
| Selenium Sulfide | 25 | $300 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other dermatology in Lake Charles
- Maureen OlivierLake Charles$529K
- Shondra SmithLake Charles$324K
- Jordan WhatleyBaton Rouge$27.9M
- Ira ThorlaBaton Rouge$5.6M
- Deirdre HooperNew Orleans$3.2M
- Sarah JacksonNew Orleans$1.7M
- Kyle ColemanThibodaux$1.5M
- Erin BohNew Orleans$945K
- Robert KoppelMetairie$878K
- Nicole HarrellBaton Rouge$836K
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.