Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Laura Friedlander

Neurology Lakewood, CO Medical Doctor

NPI 1578852042 CMS profile 1826151

11750 W 2Nd Pl, Ste 255, Lakewood, CO 80228

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General payments

$4,508

124 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Laura Friedlander of Lakewood, CO is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $4,508 across 124 general payments and $0 in research payments paid 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.

General payments for this record sit in the 64th percentile of Neurology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,003 22
2024 General $1,354 39
2023 General $438 21
2022 General $192 11
2021 General $349 8
2020 General $1,020 15
2019 General $153 8

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Laura Friedlander
  • Neurology median
  • Middle half of Neurology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Laura Friedlander were reported at $1,003. Among 11,022 Neurology profiles paid that year, the median was $457 and the middle half received between $118 and $2,344.

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Year Laura Friedlander Neurology median Middle half National median
2019 $153 $474 $118–$2,177 $163
2020 $1,020 $367 $82–$2,309 $114
2021 $349 $438 $104–$2,547 $132
2022 $192 $442 $103–$2,388 $149
2023 $438 $464 $119–$2,312 $160
2024 $1,354 $468 $119–$2,323 $164
2025 $1,003 $457 $118–$2,344 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medtronic USA, Inc. $1,022 15 payments
  2. UCB, Inc. $994 51 payments
  3. SK Life Science, Inc. $936 25 payments
  4. NeuroPace, Inc. $869 6 payments
  5. Neurelis, Inc. $148 2 payments
  6. Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $87 4 payments
  7. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. $76 2 payments
  8. Medtronic, Inc. $67 4 payments
  9. Celgene Corporation $55 3 payments
  10. Pfizer Inc. $54 3 payments
  11. Other $200 9 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $3,445 115 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $1,015 6 payments
  3. Education $47 3 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. ACTIVA $1,022 15 payments
  2. RNS Neurostimulator Kit $716 3 payments
  3. Briviact $396 18 payments
  4. Fintepla $331 15 payments
  5. Nayzilam $267 18 payments
  6. VALTOCO $148 2 payments
  7. RNS System $125 1 payment
  8. FYCOMPA $87 4 payments
  9. Austedo XR $76 2 payments
  10. REBLOZYL $55 3 payments
  11. Other $476 24 payments

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 · 25 drugs

Part D claims

1,918

Median for Neurology: 833

Drug cost

$283,486

Median for Neurology: $202,670

Branded share of claims

15.4%

Median for Neurology: 25.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Briviact Brivaracetam Brand 41 $69,012
Xcopri Cenobamate Brand 36 $57,625
Fycompa Perampanel Brand 16 $31,650
Lacosamide Generic 203 $20,663
Lamotrigine Er Lamotrigine Brand 60 $18,359
Levetiracetam Generic 386 $16,390
Nayzilam Midazolam Brand 19 $12,779
Lamotrigine Generic 391 $9,869
Clobazam Generic 102 $9,652
Zonisamide Generic 115 $7,467

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 25 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 13,695 Part D prescribers listed as Neurology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 23 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$24,815

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

225

Average age 69

Services billed

334

98 women, 127 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 63%
Arthritis 43%
Depression 33%
Chronic kidney disease 24%
Ischemic heart disease 22%
Diabetes 21%
Atrial fibrillation 18%
COPD 17%

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 11 products · payments 2024

Two 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.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
Fintepla
  • UCB, Inc. $237
$237 — —
Nayzilam
  • UCB, Inc. $123
$123 19 —
Briviact
  • UCB, Inc. $74
$74 41 —
FYCOMPA
  • CATALYST PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. $47
$47 16 —
VALTOCO
  • Neurelis, Inc. $24
$24 — —

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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Records

124 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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