Lauren Bethea, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Hattiesburg, MSNPI 1265744437
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (49.2%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 74.8% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $2,709 and has fallen 84.7% since, to $414 in 2025.
Across 89 payments — averaging $57.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- AbbVie$775
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$106
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$75
- Coopersurgical, Inc.$54
- Amgen$45
- plus $227 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$99720%
- Food & beverage$1,58331%
- Education$2,50049%
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 | 12 | $3,798 |
| AbbVie | 47 | $775 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 6 | $106 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $75 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Amgen | 3 | $45 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $36 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 2 | $18 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $17 |
| Merck | 1 | $14 |
| Bayer | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$3,591
How this compares
$5,080 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 318 obstetrics & gynecology providers in Mississippi.
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 | 133 | $2,492 |
| Tolterodine Tartrate ErTolterodine Tartrate | 39 | $1,116 |
| Medroxyprogesterone Acetate | 21 | $134 |
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 17 | $121 |
| Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl | 11 | $103 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 13 | $101 |
| Fluconazole | 34 | $98 |
| Citalopram HbrCitalopram Hydrobromide | 22 | $62 |
| Metronidazole | 18 | $50 |
| Famotidine | 15 | $6 |
| Metoclopramide Hcl | 15 | $5 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Hattiesburg
- Joseph WashburneHattiesburg$8K
- Lauren BarryHattiesburg$5K
- Robert DesantisEllisville$212K
- Lori FultonJackson$102K
- Sheila BouldinJackson$56K
- Melissa BarnettTupelo$50K
- Ahmet BedestaniFlowood$41K
- Stacey KreherBay St. Louis$40K
- Joseph McGeheeTupelo$35K
- Elizabeth TarsiTupelo$21K
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.