Has Stephen Lacaze received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,306 in general payments to Stephen Lacaze across 102 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Stephen Lacaze did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Stephen Lacaze come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Stephen Lacaze

Family · Iota, LANPI 1023596053

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,306in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 102 payments — averaging $22.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$444
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$341
Ardelyx, Inc.$318
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$199
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$112
Lilly USA, LLC$112
plus $781 from 16 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,306100%

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	20	$444
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	10	$341
Ardelyx, Inc.	12	$318
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	8	$199
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	5	$112
Lilly USA, LLC	6	$112
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$107
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	7	$87
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	5	$82
Novo Nordisk	5	$77
Abbott	3	$75
Amgen	4	$73
Exact Sciences	3	$56
Verona Pharma, Inc.	2	$39
AstraZeneca	2	$32
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	2	$31
SK Life Science, Inc.	1	$30
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$22
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$22
Bayer	1	$18
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	1	$16
Boehringer Ingelheim	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

$2,306 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 3,610 family providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$2,883,087

Medicare patients

108

Services billed

2,412

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
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl	14	$5,069
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate	12	$298
Gabapentin	24	$244
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	33	$220
Duloxetine Hcl	21	$213
Methocarbamol	31	$159
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	18	$145
Montelukast Sodium	12	$128
Levocetirizine Dihydrochloride	18	$128
Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst	11	$121
Baclofen	15	$112
Omeprazole	18	$108
Mupirocin	12	$104
Levothyroxine Sodium	13	$95
Oxybutynin Chloride	13	$92

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other family in Iota

Rebecca EzellSlidell$268K
Erin PierceNew Orleans$261K
Tavell KindallNew Orleans$194K
Ashlea HillRuston$169K
Brittany MillerVille Platte$158K
Ryanne ClarkeGretna$123K
Elidia DewittBaton Rouge$108K
Rebekah GarrardLafayette$105K
Tiffany RoeShreveport$97K
Ghenet GhebretatiosBaton Rouge$91K

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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.

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