Roland Degeyter, MD
Internal Medicine · Franklin, LANPI 1386631109
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 348 payments — averaging $16.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$1K
- Bayer$527
- AbbVie$487
- Merck$405
- Amgen$401
- Pfizer$356
- plus $3K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,79899%
- Education$351%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 72 | $1,057 |
| Bayer | 20 | $527 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 33 | $487 |
| Merck | 26 | $405 |
| Amgen | 25 | $401 |
| Pfizer | 23 | $356 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 19 | $338 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 18 | $269 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 15 | $252 |
| Gilead | 2 | $196 |
| Novartis | 11 | $188 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 15 | $167 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 9 | $151 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 8 | $132 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 6 | $102 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 4 | $90 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 7 | $89 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $84 |
| Verona Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $69 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $60 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $55 |
| Eisai Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Abbott | 2 | $43 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $36 |
| GSK | 2 | $31 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $16 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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
$5,833 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,528 internal medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 175 | $218,495 |
| EliquisApixaban | 286 | $195,008 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 179 | $193,024 |
| IngrezzaValbenazine Tosylate | 48 | $176,935 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 199 | $140,389 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 125 | $90,974 |
| KerendiaFinerenone | 101 | $74,222 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 48 | $55,953 |
| ProliaDenosumab | 27 | $46,877 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 55 | $45,680 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 71 | $33,007 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 42 | $29,900 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 33 | $24,622 |
| Synjardy XrEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl | 29 | $23,291 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 25 | $20,849 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity | $338 | $274,448223 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus | $1,057 | $211,025196 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $356 | $195,008286 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Synjardy Xr, Synjardy, Stiolto Respimat | $269 | $185,047253 claims |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.Ingrezza | $151 | $176,93548 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $36 | $90,974125 claims |
| BayerKerendia | $527 | $74,222101 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta | $31 | $53,32992 claims |
| AmgenProlia | $401 | $46,87727 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $188 | $45,68055 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid | $487 | $33,631107 claims |
| MerckJanuvia, Janumet Xr, Janumet | $405 | $32,66551 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 85th percentile of 1,528 internal medicine providers in Louisiana.
Other internal medicine in Franklin
- William SmithNew Orleans$50.5M
- Robert JeanfreauMetairie$13.4M
- Katherine PearceBaton Rouge$12M
- Ernest ThompsonBaker$2.1M
- Brian LewisNew Orleans$2M
- Otis BarnumNatchitoches$1.8M
- Satinder SainiCrowley$1.8M
- Randall MillerEunice$1.2M
- Donna RyanBaton Rouge$991K
- Steven DeitelzweigNew Orleans$939K
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.