Andres Carrion-Vargas
Pediatric Pulmonology · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1306164926
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 173 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 27 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 15.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $903 and has fallen 78.1% since, to $198 in 2025.
Across 173 payments — averaging $20.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- CSL Behring$575
- GSK$518
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$407
- AstraZeneca$337
- Advanced Respiratory, Inc$331
- Baxter Healthcare$279
- plus $1K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,623100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| CSL Behring | 29 | $575 |
| GSK | 21 | $518 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 15 | $407 |
| AstraZeneca | 19 | $337 |
| Advanced Respiratory, Inc | 14 | $331 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 11 | $279 |
| Novartis | 12 | $222 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 8 | $157 |
| Incyte Corporation | 6 | $111 |
| Amgen | 6 | $104 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 4 | $66 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 3 | $54 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Sobi, Inc | 2 | $32 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $26 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| ADMA Biomanufacturing LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Biogen | 1 | $20 |
| Veryan Medical Incorporated | 1 | $17 |
| Biocryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Corium, LLC | 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.
How this compares
$3,623 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 21 pediatric pulmonology providers in Louisiana.
Other pediatric pulmonology in Baton Rouge
- Dean EdellBaton Rouge$5K
- Jessica BrownBaton Rouge$5K
- Sterling SimpsonBaton Rouge$492
- Thomas HorsmanBaton Rouge$453
- David ThomasBaton Rouge$110
- Adrienne SavantNew Orleans$4K
- Giovanni PiedimonteNew Orleans$3K
- David SwetlandNew Orleans$2K
- Kimberly JonesShreveport$2K
- Eduardo HernandezSlidell$2K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.