Lavetta Pickens
Primary Care · Detroit, MINPI 1295073773
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 136 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Gilead at 38.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,339, 2.7 times the $499 reported in 2021. Among primary care clinicians in MI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 136 payments — averaging $31.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$2K
- Viiv Healthcare Company$1K
- Merck$493
- GSK$461
- Johnson & Johnson$192
- Pfizer$130
- plus $318 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,244100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 36 | $1,636 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 35 | $1,013 |
| Merck | 22 | $493 |
| GSK | 13 | $461 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $192 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $130 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $76 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $59 |
| Stryker | 1 | $37 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 2 | $26 |
| Modernatx, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Qiagen, LLC | 1 | $13 |
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
$4,244 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 292 primary care providers in Michigan.
Other primary care in Detroit
- Vanita RobinsonDetroit$9K
- Natalie JonesDetroit$4K
- Jenay LisbonDetroit$2K
- Donna HamillGrosse Pointe$17K
- Marie Sighe-NzokouLansing$16K
- Alexandria SchwabBay City$10K
- Amy HenryRochester Hills$10K
- Claire GebaraWaterford$9K
- Mary BoudreauMason$9K
- Kimberly FrazierLansing$8K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.