RxDoctor Payments Data

Patrick Laperouse, MD

Gastroenterology · Lafayette, LANPI 1801901335

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,288in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 175 payments — averaging $18.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$760
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$509
  • Gilead$319
  • Johnson & Johnson$296
  • Sanofi$236
  • Pfizer$149
  • plus $1K from 24 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$1505%
  • Food & beverage$3,06093%
  • Education$782%

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

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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.

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

$3,288 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 254 gastroenterology providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$209,086
Medicare patients
604
Services billed
2,913

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EpclusaSofosbuvir/Velpatasvir11$267,418
XifaxanRifaximin30$75,406
LinzessLinaclotide58$45,777
RezdiffraResmetirom11$43,139
RelistorMethylnaltrexone Bromide12$28,112
ViberziEluxadoline14$22,344
Sucralfate216$15,014
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole64$14,033
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates206$13,493
ClenpiqSod Picosulf/Mag Ox/Citric Ac61$10,316
TrulancePlecanatide19$10,207
Omeprazole593$7,138
Mesalamine DrMesalamine12$6,174
Pantoprazole Sodium423$4,817
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf18$2,886

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
GileadEpclusa$319$267,41811 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan, Relistor, Trulance$95$113,72661 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Viberzi$760$68,12172 claims
Madrigal PharmaceuticalsRezdiffra$47$43,13911 claims
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab$13$2,88618 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 40th percentile of 254 gastroenterology providers in Louisiana.

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