Steven Morris, MD
Nephrology · Metairie, LANPI 1295763035
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 36 payments — averaging $27.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$430
- Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$125
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$73
- Akebia Therapeutics Inc$64
- AstraZeneca$42
- OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$35
- plus $218 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$987100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 13 | $430 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 4 | $73 |
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 3 | $64 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $42 |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Nxstage Medical, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Cormedix Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $21 |
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
$987 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 206 nephrology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sevelamer Carbonate | 37 | $6,133 |
| Calcium Acetate | 16 | $1,142 |
| Bumetanide | 27 | $807 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 125 | $746 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 40 | $632 |
| Nifedipine ErNifedipine | 28 | $556 |
| Losartan Potassium | 44 | $394 |
| Hydralazine Hcl | 38 | $363 |
| Potassium Chloride | 13 | $363 |
| Spironolactone | 32 | $354 |
| Carvedilol | 40 | $282 |
| Losartan-HydrochlorothiazideLosartan/Hydrochlorothiazide | 20 | $246 |
| Furosemide | 37 | $224 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 23 | $220 |
| Allopurinol | 28 | $184 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nephrology in Metairie
- Jill LindbergMetairie$28K
- Ashwin JaikishenMetairie$20K
- Oksana NimkevychMetairie$18K
- Sreedhara AllaShreveport$1.2M
- Christopher LuscyBaton Rouge$1.1M
- Marwan KaskasShreveport$968K
- Juan Carlos VelezNew Orleans$801K
- Richard O'DonovanMonroe$566K
- Michael RoppoloBaton Rouge$447K
- Anthony BlalockLafayette$350K
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.