Blake Savoie
Gastroenterology · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1194286583
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 95 payments — averaging $31.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$307
- Laborie Medical Technologies Corp.$269
- Sanofi$144
- Bristol Myers Squibb$140
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$116
- plus $681 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,020100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 37 | $1,362 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 19 | $307 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 3 | $269 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $144 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 6 | $140 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $97 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $85 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $67 |
| Theratechnologies Inc. | 2 | $66 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $46 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 2 | $43 |
| GSK | 3 | $39 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $39 |
| UCB, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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
$3,020 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 254 gastroenterology providers in Louisiana.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 41 | $194 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in Baton Rouge
- Gregory GaspardBaton Rouge$4M
- Jonathon ChapmanBaton Rouge$3.6M
- Gia LandryBaton Rouge$511K
- Satyaprasad AlapatiBaton Rouge$317K
- Neelima ReddyBaton Rouge$259K
- Michael BarkerBaton Rouge$167K
- Ronald LeoBaton Rouge$91K
- Christopher ChristensenBaton Rouge$63K
- Humberto AguilarShreveport$13.1M
- Gary ReissMarrero$10M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.