Lakesha Billington

What was reported, 2019–2025

$1,042

General payments

9 separate payments. What they were, as CMS records them, is below.

$0

Research payments

Funding for a study, usually paid to an institution with this clinician named on it. Not added to general payments, and not income.

$0

Ownership and investment

The value of a stake this clinician or an immediate family member held.

0

Disputed

This clinician has contested none of the payments reported about them.

How this compares

General payments: $1,042, 2019–⁠2025

By the amount companies reported, 43,689th among the 157,812 profiles with general payments in Family.

General payments: this profile's rank in each group, its place among the profiles nationally and its share of the national total

Nationally	536,232nd of 1,688,859
In Texas	46,957th of 135,300
In Family	43,689th of 157,812
Profiles below it nationally	More than 68%
Share of the national total	< 0.1%

What the payments were

Each payment as the manufacturer categorized it when reporting it to CMS, across 2019–2025. Together they are the general payments above. A category is the reporter’s, and nothing in the record says a payment in any of them was improper.

By program year

CMS reports a program year at a time and also publishes its own total across them, which is what the figures above are. These rows are that total taken apart, not a second set of payments.

CMS’s file covers 2019–2025. It holds no payments to Lakesha Billington in 2019–2021.

The record

National Provider Identifier

1669047429

The identifier this page is addressed by, and the one both CMS files share.

Specialty

Family

Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers, in CMS's taxonomy.

Licensed in

TX

The state of the license CMS lists first.

Recipient type

Covered Recipient Non-Physician Practitioner

How CMS classifies the recipient of these payments.

Medicare prescribing

What this provider billed to Medicare Part D in 2024, as CMS published it. Medicare Part D only: what they prescribed outside it is not here.

1,132

Claims

Prescriptions and refills billed to Part D, as CMS counts them.

$27,681

Total drug cost

What Part D, the plan and the patient paid together. Not what this provider was paid — they are paid nothing out of it.

198

Beneficiaries

People with at least one prescription from this provider.

12

Brand-name claims

Of the claims above, those for a brand-name drug.

1,120

Generic claims

Of the claims above, those for a generic.

236

Opioid claims

CMS puts this provider's opioid prescribing rate at 20.848056537102476% of their claims. That is their figure, computed from their own unsuppressed data.

not reported

Antibiotic claims

Claims for an antibiotic.

Nurse Practitioner

Prescriber type

As CMS classifies this prescriber. Credentials: APRN-FNP-BC.

A blank is not a zero. CMS withholds a value between 1 and 10, and withholds the next lowest alongside it so the first cannot be worked out by subtraction — so a withheld figure is not even evidence that the number was small. Rows for ten or fewer claims are removed from the file altogether, which is why the parts of a total can be withheld while the total is published.

Elsewhere

• Payments to doctors in Texas — what was reported across the state this clinician practises in.
• What drug and device companies pay doctors — the national picture these figures are part of.
• This record at CMS — the publisher’s own page for this profile.
• The NPI registry — who this identifier belongs to, at CMS.