Malika Morse, MD
Nephrology · Kenner, LANPI 1669464400
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 93.9% of the total across 28 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 12 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $468 and has fallen 93.8% since, to $29 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for nephrology clinicians in LA, where the typical reported total is $1,900.
Across 28 payments — averaging $58.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$330
- Vifor Pharma, Inc.$300
- AstraZeneca$262
- Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$240
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$121
- Akebia Therapeutics Inc$109
- plus $270 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,53194%
- Education$1006%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 6 | $330 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $300 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 4 | $262 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 2 | $240 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 2 | $109 |
| Nxstage Medical, Inc. | 1 | $73 |
| Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Bayer | 2 | $41 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Amgen | 1 | $16 |
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
$1,631 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 206 nephrology providers in Louisiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sevelamer Carbonate | 11 | $1,652 |
| Calcitriol | 41 | $541 |
| Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate | 18 | $431 |
| Potassium Chloride | 23 | $261 |
| Furosemide | 31 | $254 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $132 |
| Vitamin D2Ergocalciferol (Vitamin D2) | 13 | $107 |
| Spironolactone | 11 | $100 |
| Lisinopril | 15 | $93 |
| Azithromycin | 12 | $51 |
| Hydrochlorothiazide | 11 | $9 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nephrology in Kenner
- Sreedhara AllaShreveport$722K
- Anthony BlalockLafayette$350K
- Juan Carlos VelezNew Orleans$282K
- Jones SamuelBaton Rouge$207K
- Jon MaresCovington$103K
- Raja ZabanehShreveport$57K
- Michael TouchyNew Orleans$56K
- Kenneth AbreoShreveport$42K
- Michael LiuOpelousas$36K
- David PowersCovington$35K
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.