Robert Romero, MD
Dermatology · Lafayette, LANPI 1285652453
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 180 payments — averaging $42.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$3K
- Lilly USA, LLC$1K
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$622
- Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc.$518
- Johnson & Johnson$456
- Sanofi$296
- plus $2K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$7,682100%
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 83 | $2,614 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 14 | $1,076 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 16 | $622 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $518 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $456 |
| Sanofi | 9 | $296 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 5 | $280 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $272 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $198 |
| Incyte Corporation | 6 | $196 |
| UCB, Inc. | 6 | $178 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 4 | $159 |
| Amgen | 1 | $144 |
| Almirall LLC | 4 | $143 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $116 |
| Dermira, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Biocon Biologics Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Mylan Institutional Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Organon | 1 | $9 |
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
$7,682 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 189 dermatology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Clobetasol Propionate | 51 | $4,133 |
| Fluocinolone Acetonide | 35 | $1,906 |
| Betamethasone Dipropionate | 38 | $1,487 |
| Fluocinonide | 30 | $1,256 |
| Levocetirizine Dihydrochloride | 50 | $1,106 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 83 | $1,067 |
| Fluorouracil | 13 | $999 |
| Desonide | 32 | $912 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 41 | $770 |
| Metronidazole | 19 | $744 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 111 | $665 |
| Ketoconazole | 71 | $640 |
| Mupirocin | 94 | $622 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 42 | $608 |
| Ciclopirox | 22 | $371 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other dermatology in Lafayette
- Blair BuddenLafayette$329K
- Frankie RholdonLafayette$227K
- Daniel DupreeLafayette$30K
- Chris HubbellLafayette$20K
- Lien Kim DrewLafayette$17K
- Kristy KennedyLafayette$13K
- David PowellLafayette$10K
- Jordan WhatleyBaton Rouge$27.9M
- Ira ThorlaBaton Rouge$5.6M
- Deirdre HooperNew Orleans$3.2M
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.