Rebecca Lillis, MD
Infectious Disease · New Orleans, LANPI 1760481592
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (51.7%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Cepheid at 43.5% of the total. Among infectious disease 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 39 payments — averaging $1537.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cepheid$26K
- Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.$13K
- Roche Diagnostics International Ltd$6K
- Ortho-clinical Diagnostics, Inc.$5K
- Biomerieux Inc$4K
- Abbott$3K
- plus $3K from 3 others
Across 190 payments — averaging $14,095 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.$759K
- BD$536K
- Biofire Diagnostics, LLC$479K
- Visby Medical, Inc.$413K
- Cepheid$201K
- Ortho-clinical Diagnostics, Inc.$137K
- plus $153K from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$22,89138%
- Speaking & faculty fees$30,99752%
- Travel & lodging$5,6609%
- Food & beverage$4211%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cepheid | 26 | $26,098 |
| Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. | 1 | $12,625 |
| Roche Diagnostics International Ltd | 1 | $5,866 |
| Ortho-clinical Diagnostics, Inc. | 1 | $5,400 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $4,347 |
| Abbott | 6 | $3,068 |
| Roche Diagnostics Corporation | 1 | $2,400 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $134 |
| Biofire Diagnostics, LLC | 1 | $31 |
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.
- GENEXPERT$25,964
- ID NOW INSTRUMENT$2,881
- cobas 4800 CTNG Test v20$2,400
- Aptima$134
How this compares
$59,969 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 105 infectious disease 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.
Other infectious disease in New Orleans
- Eric EhrensingNew Orleans$97K
- Meredith ClementNew Orleans$93K
- Stephanie TaylorNew Orleans$25K
- Edwin SwiatloNew Orleans$22K
- Jonathan HandNew Orleans$10K
- Markalain DeryNew Orleans$9K
- Julia Garcia-DiazNew Orleans$8K
- Obinna NneduNew Orleans$3K
- Katherine BaumgartenNew Orleans$3K
- George PankeyNew Orleans$3K
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.