Has Lawrence Line, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,947 in general payments to Lawrence Line, MD across 17 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Lawrence Line, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Lawrence Line, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Lawrence Line, MD

Sports Medicine · Hattiesburg, MSNPI 1427087592

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $1,200 of the $1,947 with a category attached, or 61.6%. ALON Medical Technology accounts for 61.6% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,200 and has fallen 95.8% since, to $51 in 2025.

$1,947in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $114.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

ALON Medical Technology$1K
Stryker$565
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$47
Johnson & Johnson$36
Vertex$35
Pfizer$33
plus $30 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$29015%
Food & beverage$45723%
Education$1,20062%

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
ALON Medical Technology	1	$1,200
Stryker	8	$565
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	1	$47
Johnson & Johnson	1	$36
Vertex	2	$35
Pfizer	2	$33
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$18
Boston Scientific	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.

REUNION$418

How this compares

$1,947 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 33 sports medicine providers in Mississippi.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$270,230

Medicare patients

543

Services billed

5,150

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
Diclofenac Sodium	217	$2,833
Meloxicam	528	$1,161
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	125	$665
Ondansetron Hcl	108	$419
Methylprednisolone	73	$370
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	112	$246
Celecoxib	18	$180
Clindamycin Hcl	23	$161
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	12	$94
Tramadol Hcl	34	$69
Famotidine	20	$15

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other sports medicine in Hattiesburg

John BerryHattiesburg$5K
Jeremy WellsHattiesburg$2K
Michael LandersHattiesburg$2K
Christopher PentonHattiesburg$2K
Nathan DarbyHattiesburg$762
Jessica TullosHattiesburg$545
Kevin ClementHattiesburg$226
William RossHattiesburg$145
Douglas RouseHattiesburg$34
James Hurt IiiColumbus$25K

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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.

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