Renato la Rocca
Medical Oncology · Louisville, KYNPI 1598738932
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $16,400 of the $23,623 with a category attached, or 69.4%. Novocure Inc. accounts for 94.9% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $16,479 and has fallen 99.0% since, to $167 in 2022.
Across 64 payments — averaging $369.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novocure Inc.$22K
- Bayer$900
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$102
- AstraZeneca$98
- Monteris Medical Corporation$77
- Tosoh Bioscience, Inc.$25
- plus $12 from 1 others
Across 16 payments — averaging $21,052 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.
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$238K
- Novocure GmbH$94K
- Novocure Inc.$4K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9004%
- Speaking & faculty fees$16,40069%
- Travel & lodging$4,14718%
- Food & beverage$2,1399%
- Education$120%
- Gifts$250%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novocure Inc. | 58 | $22,410 |
| Bayer | 1 | $900 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $102 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $98 |
| Monteris Medical Corporation | 1 | $77 |
| Tosoh Bioscience, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Gilead | 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
$23,623 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 53 medical oncology providers in Kentucky.
Other medical oncology in Louisville
- Emmanuel NidhiryLouisville$34K
- John HammLouisville$26K
- Vijay RaghavanLouisville$17K
- Don StevensLouisville$16K
- Douglas NelsonLouisville$8K
- Michael DriscollLouisville$2K
- Subhash ShethLouisville$1K
- Thomas WoodcockLouisville$57
- Janell SeegerLouisville$12
- Joseph FlynnLouisville$0
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.