Lauren Portas, MD
Dermatology · Harrisburg, PANPI 1316365661
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 608 payments — averaging $17.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Novartis$1K
- AbbVie$1K
- UCB, Inc.$901
- Amgen$838
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$674
- plus $4K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$10,61699%
- Education$851%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 87 | $1,781 |
| Novartis | 103 | $1,465 |
| AbbVie | 76 | $1,209 |
| UCB, Inc. | 39 | $901 |
| Amgen | 51 | $838 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 30 | $674 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 37 | $625 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 23 | $467 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 22 | $451 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 28 | $451 |
| Sanofi | 19 | $331 |
| Pfizer | 20 | $264 |
| Helsinn Therapeutics (U.S.), Inc. | 15 | $229 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 12 | $227 |
| Incyte Corporation | 6 | $107 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 5 | $75 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 5 | $75 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 3 | $69 |
| Almirall LLC | 3 | $66 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 4 | $56 |
| Dermira, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Organon | 4 | $44 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $29 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 1 | $21 |
| DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Sebela Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $6 |
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
$10,701 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 626 dermatology providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cosentyx Unoready PenSecukinumab | 12 | $108,032 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 65 | $3,323 |
| Tretinoin | 48 | $3,086 |
| Fluorouracil | 45 | $2,927 |
| Fluocinonide | 54 | $2,074 |
| Metronidazole | 47 | $1,909 |
| Azelaic Acid | 22 | $1,406 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 103 | $998 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 26 | $914 |
| Betamethasone Diprop AugmentedBetamethasone/Propylene Glyc | 37 | $881 |
| Ketoconazole | 39 | $823 |
| Desonide | 16 | $600 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 24 | $530 |
| Ciclopirox | 16 | $400 |
| Mupirocin | 37 | $266 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other dermatology in Harrisburg
- Victoria WerthPhiladelphia$7.2M
- Laura FerrisPittsburgh$4.3M
- Joel GelfandPhiladelphia$3.6M
- Scott GottliebExton$3.4M
- Lawrence ParishPhiladelphia$2.9M
- Stephen SchleicherSugarloaf$2.3M
- Douglas KressWexford$2M
- Stephen HessPhiladelphia$1.7M
- Joe TungPittsburgh$1.5M
- Joslyn Sciacca-KirbyHershey$1.3M
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.