Precious Hodges
Acute Care · Lafayette, LANPI 1841593464
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (44.1%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. accounts for 91.7% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $26,211 and has fallen 56.3% since, to $11,454 in 2025. Among acute care clinicians in LA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 263 payments — averaging $265.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$64K
- Vifor Pharma, Inc.$3K
- AstraZeneca$1K
- Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$268
- Bayer$235
- Amgen$145
- plus $845 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,5009%
- Speaking & faculty fees$30,82844%
- Travel & lodging$26,54538%
- Food & beverage$5,9699%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 151 | $64,022 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 12 | $3,254 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 40 | $1,073 |
| Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. | 8 | $268 |
| Bayer | 7 | $235 |
| Amgen | 8 | $145 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $131 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 5 | $116 |
| Novartis | 4 | $100 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 4 | $93 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 5 | $89 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $65 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $45 |
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 2 | $35 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $25 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Biogen | 1 | $22 |
| Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Merck | 1 | $20 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical 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.
How this compares
$69,842 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 248 acute care 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 |
|---|---|---|
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 16 | $10,310 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 13 | $7,617 |
| LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate | 16 | $6,743 |
| Cinacalcet Hcl | 14 | $3,126 |
| Nifedipine ErNifedipine | 66 | $1,223 |
| Calcitriol | 44 | $448 |
| Potassium Chloride | 35 | $320 |
| Losartan Potassium | 45 | $250 |
| Lisinopril | 19 | $142 |
| Spironolactone | 14 | $130 |
| Torsemide | 11 | $102 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 45 | $101 |
| Gabapentin | 15 | $100 |
| Clonidine Hcl | 11 | $99 |
| Hydrochlorothiazide | 24 | $52 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma | $1,073 | $17,05332 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $65 | $7,61713 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 95th percentile of 248 acute care providers in Louisiana.
Other acute care in Lafayette
- Jeremy TerroLafayette$11K
- Kira WeberLafayette$5K
- Kristen LasseigneLafayette$3K
- Stepheny SumrallLafayette$2K
- Brinton FegleyShreveport$61K
- Charles JarreauNew Orleans$40K
- Jeremy DavisShreveport$35K
- Heather MecomShreveport$17K
- Mary HireShreveport$11K
- Jacquelyn CosterHouma$10K
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.