Who Paid My Doc
Thomas Cockerham
Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine, Sports Medicine Baton Rouge, LA Medical Doctor
NPI 1427026996 CMS profile 773999
5211 Essen Lane, Suite 9, Baton Rouge, LA 70809
General payments
$132
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2025, Thomas Cockerham of Baton Rouge, LA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $132 across 7 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 35th percentile of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine, Sports Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
2 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $89 | 5 | |
| 2024 | General | $43 | 2 |
Beside peers
- Thomas Cockerham
- Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine, Sports Medicine median
- Middle half of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine, Sports Medicine
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Thomas Cockerham were reported at $89. Among 69 Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine, Sports Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $125 and the middle half received between $37 and $473.
Show as a table
| Year | Thomas Cockerham | Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine, Sports Medicine median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $0 | $152 | $43–$474 | $163 |
| 2020 | $0 | $113 | $31–$725 | $114 |
| 2021 | $0 | $167 | $50–$469 | $132 |
| 2022 | $0 | $132 | $46–$572 | $149 |
| 2023 | $0 | $109 | $39–$366 | $160 |
| 2024 | $43 | $115 | $37–$321 | $164 |
| 2025 | $89 | $125 | $37–$473 | $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 · 27 drugsPart D claims
806
Drug cost
$115,402
Branded share of claims
41.2%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buprenorphine-Naloxone Buprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | Brand | 158 | $41,467 | |
| Sublocade Buprenorphine | Brand | 15 | $29,087 | |
| Suboxone Buprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | Brand | 18 | $14,672 | |
| Zubsolv Buprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | Brand | 13 | $11,393 | |
| Trelegy Ellipta Fluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | Brand | 15 | $9,068 | |
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen | Brand | 69 | $3,385 | |
| Buprenorphine Hcl | Generic | 22 | $1,500 | |
| Oxycodone Hcl | Generic | 58 | $1,253 | |
| Gabapentin | Generic | 70 | $676 | |
| Testosterone Cypionate | Generic | 15 | $624 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 27 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.
Payments and prescribing
1 product · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SUBLOCADE |
|
$43 | 15 | — |
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.
Records
7 reportedEvery payment, record by record
Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.
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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.