Carlos Mendoza
Family · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1972218766
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 32 payments — averaging $20.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$91
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$71
- Bayer$70
- Boston Scientific$63
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$56
- Amgen$49
- plus $268 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$667100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 5 | $91 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $71 |
| Bayer | 3 | $70 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $63 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| Amgen | 3 | $49 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $44 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $37 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 2 | $36 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $35 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $16 |
How this compares
$667 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 3,610 family providers in Louisiana.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 26 | $496 |
| Levetiracetam | 28 | $417 |
| Memantine Hcl | 37 | $304 |
| Sumatriptan Succinate | 16 | $117 |
| Topiramate | 15 | $87 |
| Pregabalin | 12 | $76 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in Baton Rouge
- Elidia DewittBaton Rouge$108K
- Ghenet GhebretatiosBaton Rouge$91K
- Heather SullivanBaton Rouge$32K
- Randee KidderBaton Rouge$30K
- Dionne BellBaton Rouge$25K
- Jennifer LittleBaton Rouge$21K
- Tracy ParkerBaton Rouge$19K
- Celeste WaguespackBaton Rouge$18K
- Kristen VillarBaton Rouge$18K
- Sharon JacksonBaton Rouge$15K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.