Olivia Hightower, MD
Medical Oncology · Gulfport, MSNPI 1528228541
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,222 payments — averaging $18.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$3K
- Merck$2K
- Genentech USA, Inc.$1K
- AstraZeneca$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Eisai Inc.$1K
- plus $12K from 54 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$21,39294%
- Education$3031%
- Other$1,0985%
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.
How this compares
$22,794 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 20 medical oncology providers in Mississippi.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| RevlimidLenalidomide | 28 | $628,099 |
| CalquenceAcalabrutinib Maleate | 34 | $483,358 |
| XtandiEnzalutamide | 37 | $368,946 |
| ImbruvicaIbrutinib | 46 | $323,099 |
| VerzenioAbemaciclib | 21 | $297,257 |
| PomalystPomalidomide | 12 | $276,090 |
| JakafiRuxolitinib Phosphate | 12 | $194,340 |
| KisqaliRibociclib Succinate | 13 | $180,820 |
| IbrancePalbociclib | 12 | $180,281 |
| Lenalidomide | 12 | $171,544 |
| TasignaNilotinib Hcl | 13 | $115,595 |
| HizentraImmun Glob G(Igg)/Pro/Iga 0-50 | 36 | $110,261 |
| EliquisApixaban | 122 | $95,917 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 105 | $87,661 |
| PromactaEltrombopag Olamine | 12 | $81,238 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Bristol Myers SquibbRevlimid | $680 | $628,09928 claims |
| AstraZenecaCalquence | $1,331 | $483,35834 claims |
| NovartisKisqali, Tasigna, Promacta | $3,225 | $377,65338 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncXtandi, Myrbetriq | $280 | $376,77252 claims |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie CompanyImbruvica | $64 | $323,09946 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCVerzenio | $832 | $297,25721 claims |
| PfizerIbrance, Eliquis | $671 | $276,198134 claims |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Pomalyst | $718 | $276,09012 claims |
| Incyte CorporationJakafi | $670 | $194,34012 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $1,062 | $87,661105 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess | $182 | $43,25866 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta | $208 | $28,01844 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 65th percentile of 20 medical oncology providers in Mississippi.
Other medical oncology in Gulfport
- Sidra KhalidGulfport$19K
- Stephanie FussellGulfport$13K
- Brian PersingPascagoula$510K
- Natale SheehanJackson$82K
- John RuckdeschelJackson$72K
- Manubhai PatelJackson$48K
- James ThigpenJackson$41K
- Tammy YoungJackson$41K
- Elizabeth HerringtonJackson$10K
- Suhail ObajiNew Albany$8K
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.