Lakisha Bastian, MD
Internal Medicine · Gretna, LANPI 1730354630
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 549 payments — averaging $18.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$2K
- Lilly USA, LLC$2K
- AbbVie$1K
- GSK$890
- Amgen$559
- Novo Nordisk$531
- plus $4K from 33 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$10,09499%
- Education$551%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 60 | $1,668 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 83 | $1,567 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 60 | $1,100 |
| GSK | 59 | $890 |
| Amgen | 22 | $559 |
| Novo Nordisk | 32 | $531 |
| Pfizer | 31 | $512 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 24 | $369 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 12 | $268 |
| Merck | 23 | $255 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 10 | $252 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 15 | $223 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 12 | $182 |
| Bayer | 10 | $174 |
| Abbott | 8 | $163 |
| Novartis | 9 | $155 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $139 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 8 | $124 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 6 | $108 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 7 | $107 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $106 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 6 | $93 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 4 | $72 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $72 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $60 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 2 | $56 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $49 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 2 | $40 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $17 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Medtronic | 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
$10,149 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,528 internal 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 |
|---|---|---|
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 230 | $267,626 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 120 | $145,879 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 116 | $141,125 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 121 | $133,483 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 74 | $65,317 |
| EliquisApixaban | 68 | $62,026 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 53 | $55,529 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 41 | $52,087 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 32 | $32,347 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 59 | $31,614 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 33 | $23,434 |
| FanaptIloperidone | 12 | $22,376 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 29 | $19,505 |
| ProliaDenosumab | 11 | $17,916 |
| WegovySemaglutide | 13 | $17,660 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity | $1,567 | $323,155283 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus, Wegovy | $531 | $304,665249 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid | $1,100 | $138,660167 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta | $890 | $103,180146 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Trijardy Xr, Synjardy Xr | $369 | $96,948101 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $512 | $62,02668 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Symbicort | $1,668 | $39,07769 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $255 | $32,34732 claims |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.Fanapt | $28 | $22,37612 claims |
| AmgenProlia | $559 | $17,91611 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $139 | $16,93817 claims |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa | $72 | $16,63720 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 90th percentile of 1,528 internal medicine providers in Louisiana.
Other internal medicine in Gretna
- Hai NguyenGretna$350K
- Everett BrownGretna$71K
- William SmithNew Orleans$50.5M
- Robert JeanfreauMetairie$13.4M
- Katherine PearceBaton Rouge$12M
- Ernest ThompsonBaker$2.1M
- Brian LewisNew Orleans$2M
- Otis BarnumNatchitoches$1.8M
- Satinder SainiCrowley$1.8M
- Randall MillerEunice$1.2M
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.