Who Paid My Doc
Christopher Lucasti
Infectious Disease Somers Point, NJ Doctor of Osteopathy
NPI 1467447417 CMS profile 201803
730 Shore Rd, Somers Point, NJ 08244
General payments
$111,816
Research payments
$1,311
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$2,690,680
Through program year 2025, Christopher Lucasti of Somers Point, NJ is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $111,816 across 1,015 general payments and $1,311 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $2,690,680 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.
No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 97th percentile of Infectious Disease profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
8 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $16,382 | 175 | |
| 2024 | General | $15,824 | 133 | |
| 2023 | General | $21,475 | 144 | |
| 2023 | Research | $1,311 | 8 | |
| 2022 | General | $9,988 | 137 | |
| 2021 | General | $14,997 | 158 | |
| 2020 | General | $9,796 | 118 | |
| 2019 | General | $23,354 | 150 |
Beside peers
- Christopher Lucasti
- Infectious Disease median
- Middle half of Infectious Disease
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Christopher Lucasti were reported at $16,382. Among 3,905 Infectious Disease profiles paid that year, the median was $188 and the middle half received between $57 and $766.
Show as a table
| Year | Christopher Lucasti | Infectious Disease median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $23,354 | $190 | $60–$862 | $163 |
| 2020 | $9,796 | $124 | $32–$606 | $114 |
| 2021 | $14,997 | $148 | $38–$905 | $132 |
| 2022 | $9,988 | $166 | $50–$834 | $149 |
| 2023 | $21,475 | $171 | $57–$787 | $160 |
| 2024 | $15,824 | $176 | $52–$752 | $164 |
| 2025 | $16,382 | $188 | $57–$766 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Prescribing to Medicare patients
Part D · data year 2024 · 75 drugsPart D claims
2,870
Drug cost
$4,003,588
Branded share of claims
53%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biktarvy Bictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala | Brand | 271 | $1,183,012 | |
| Odefsey Emtricitab/Rilpiviri/Tenof Ala | Brand | 163 | $596,537 | |
| Trogarzo Ibalizumab-Uiyk | Brand | 41 | $470,640 | |
| Cabenuva Cabotegravir/Rilpivirine | Brand | 41 | $224,481 | |
| Arikayce Amikacin Liposomal/Neb.Accessr | Brand | 13 | $198,734 | |
| Tivicay Dolutegravir Sodium | Brand | 79 | $184,750 | |
| Triumeq Abacavir/Dolutegravir/Lamivudi | Brand | 47 | $167,551 | |
| Dovato Dolutegravir Sodium/Lamivudine | Brand | 50 | $165,118 | |
| Prezcobix Darunavir/Cobicistat | Brand | 64 | $155,648 | |
| Symtuza Darunavir/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alaf | Brand | 27 | $123,560 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 75 counted.
Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 5,546 Part D prescribers listed as Infectious Disease; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 62 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$594,184
Medicare patients
899
Services billed
133,436
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Arthritis | 56% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 48% | |
| Diabetes | 40% | |
| Heart failure | 38% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 38% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 35% | |
| COPD | 35% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Injection, ertapenem sodium, 500 mg J1335 | Office | 43 | 726 | $6,355 |
| Injection, daptomycin, 1 mg J0878 | Office | 15 | 106,226 | $4,971 |
| Injection, vancomycin hcl, 500 mg J3370 | Office | 47 | 1,988 | $3,459 |
| Injection, cefepime hydrochloride, 500 mg J0692 | Office | 35 | 3,243 | $3,212 |
| Injection, ceftriaxone sodium, per 250 mg J0696 | Office | 79 | 7,599 | $2,742 |
| Injection, piperacillin sodium/tazobactam sodium, 1 gram/0.125 grams (1.125 grams) J2543 | Office | 16 | 1,504 | $1,305 |
| Influenza vaccine, trivalent derived from recombinant dna 90673 | Office | 15 | 15 | $1,227 |
| Injection, cefazolin sodium, 500 mg J0690 | Office | 11 | 1,798 | $1,147 |
Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.
Payments and prescribing
First 5 of 29 products · payments 2024Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.
| Product | Paid by | Related payments | Part D claims | Part B services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biktarvy |
|
$13,463 | 271 | — |
| DOVATO |
|
$329 | 50 | — |
| RUKOBIA |
|
$122 | — | — |
| EGRIFTA SV |
|
$108 | — | — |
| NUZYRA |
|
$104 | — | — |
A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
What this means
U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.
An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.
Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.