Tyler Lash, MD
Hematology & Oncology · Shreveport, LANPI 1437449949
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 224 payments — averaging $19.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$702
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$421
- Pfizer$335
- AbbVie$278
- Johnson & Johnson$274
- Merck$252
- plus $2K from 33 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,88588%
- Education$51012%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 39 | $702 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 21 | $421 |
| Pfizer | 22 | $335 |
| AbbVie | 10 | $278 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 13 | $274 |
| Merck | 13 | $252 |
| Tempus AI, Inc | 9 | $203 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 17 | $185 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 11 | $182 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 3 | $166 |
| Sanofi | 8 | $149 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $132 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $113 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 6 | $91 |
| Amgen | 5 | $83 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 4 | $78 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $64 |
| Tesaro, Inc. | 3 | $64 |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company | 3 | $61 |
| Bayer | 3 | $49 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Taiho Oncology, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Incyte Corporation | 2 | $32 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $22 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Partner Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| GSK | 1 | $16 |
| Clovis Oncology, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Puma Biotechnology, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Helsinn Therapeutics (U.S.), Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Advanced Accelerator Applications | 1 | $13 |
| Gilead | 1 | $12 |
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.
- INJECTAFER$125
- PROVENGE$102
How this compares
$4,395 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 183 hematology & oncology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiraterone Acetate | 217 | $647,687 |
| ImbruvicaIbrutinib | 44 | $580,126 |
| PomalystPomalidomide | 24 | $544,165 |
| RevlimidLenalidomide | 33 | $503,004 |
| PromactaEltrombopag Olamine | 31 | $411,127 |
| VerzenioAbemaciclib | 24 | $370,352 |
| CalquenceAcalabrutinib Maleate | 23 | $332,965 |
| Bexarotene | 17 | $302,605 |
| JakafiRuxolitinib Phosphate | 15 | $255,672 |
| RubracaRucaparib Camsylate | 21 | $210,608 |
| SprycelDasatinib | 14 | $197,826 |
| NinlaroIxazomib Citrate | 15 | $196,074 |
| IbrancePalbociclib | 11 | $178,685 |
| XtandiEnzalutamide | 11 | $154,747 |
| PegasysPeginterferon Alfa-2a | 36 | $151,364 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Pomalyst, Sprycel | $185 | $741,99138 claims |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie CompanyImbruvica | $61 | $580,12644 claims |
| Bristol Myers SquibbRevlimid | $78 | $503,00433 claims |
| NovartisPromacta | $702 | $411,12731 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCVerzenio, Olanzapine | $64 | $371,42888 claims |
| AstraZenecaCalquence | $182 | $332,96523 claims |
| Incyte CorporationJakafi | $32 | $255,67215 claims |
| PfizerIbrance, Eliquis | $335 | $225,57068 claims |
| Clovis Oncology, Inc.Rubraca | $16 | $210,60821 claims |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Ninlaro | $113 | $196,07415 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncXtandi | $132 | $154,74711 claims |
| AbbVieVenclexta | $278 | $99,14112 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 35th percentile of 183 hematology & oncology providers in Louisiana.
Other hematology & oncology in Shreveport
- Anil VeluvoluShreveport$915K
- Prakash PeddiShreveport$670K
- Gary BurtonShreveport$458K
- Kevin GallagherShreveport$339K
- Poornima RamadasShreveport$313K
- Richard MansourShreveport$281K
- Shashank CingamShreveport$271K
- Maxwell McDonaldShreveport$163K
- Kirtan KotichaShreveport$117K
- Joyce FeaginShreveport$95K
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.