RxDoctor Payments Data

Rochelle Robicheaux Metoyer, MD

Rheumatology · Ruston, LANPI 1750575890

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,909in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 165 payments — averaging $17.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$684
  • Novartis$550
  • AbbVie$497
  • UCB, Inc.$189
  • Johnson & Johnson$151
  • Pfizer$141
  • plus $697 from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,73194%
  • Education$1786%

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

$2,909 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 88 rheumatology providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$4,609,343
Medicare patients
765
Services billed
194,922

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
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab95$1,007,315
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept47$409,468
Orencia ClickjectAbatacept55$323,223
RinvoqUpadacitinib40$305,123
Cimzia (2 Pack)Certolizumab Pegol28$170,869
Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate27$165,715
KevzaraSarilumab34$164,734
Humira(Cf)Adalimumab12$144,431
ProliaDenosumab74$128,176
Cosentyx Unoready PenSecukinumab17$125,060
Cosentyx Sensoready (2 Pens)Secukinumab12$102,576
OtezlaApremilast18$85,481
BenlystaBelimumab12$58,410
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate687$42,693
Evenity (2 Syringes)Romosozumab-Aqqg15$37,185

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
AbbVieRinvoq, Humira(Cf)$497$449,55452 claims
AmgenProlia, Otezla, Evenity (2 Syringes)$684$250,842107 claims
UCB, Inc.Cimzia (2 Pack)$189$170,86928 claims
SanofiKevzara$125$164,73434 claims
GSKBenlysta$43$58,41012 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 20th percentile of 88 rheumatology providers in Louisiana.

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