Louis Lucas, MD
Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Birmingham, ALNPI 1346465549
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 54.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,663, 7.4 times the $224 reported in 2019.
Across 57 payments — averaging $50.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$917
- Philips North America LLC$140
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$93
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$74
- Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$38
- plus $64 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,28945%
- Food & beverage$1,60155%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 15 | $1,564 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 30 | $917 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $140 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $93 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 2 | $74 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $38 |
| Argon Medical Devices, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Eisai Inc. | 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.
- VenaSeal$1,203
- (6554) Periph Vasc Undiv$103
How this compares
$2,889 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 39 vascular & interventional radiology providers in Alabama.
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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.
Other vascular & interventional radiology in Birmingham
- Venkatesh KrishnasamyBirmingham$232K
- Junjian HuangBirmingham$76K
- Andrew WhiteBirmingham$10K
- William ParkhurstBirmingham$9K
- Aliaksei SaleiBirmingham$8K
- Husameddin El KhudariBirmingham$7K
- Junaid RajaBirmingham$5K
- Adam JacobsBirmingham$2K
- Thomas HarrellBirmingham$1K
- Stephen BrownBirmingham$859
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.