Charles Joiner
Family Medicine · Alexandria, LANPI 1780686923
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 144 payments — averaging $15.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$332
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$277
- Pfizer$255
- GSK$249
- Lilly USA, LLC$168
- Novo Nordisk$162
- plus $773 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,209100%
- Education$60%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 18 | $332 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 17 | $277 |
| Pfizer | 20 | $255 |
| GSK | 15 | $249 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 10 | $168 |
| Novo Nordisk | 10 | $162 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 15 | $161 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 7 | $116 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $101 |
| Merck | 6 | $90 |
| Amgen | 4 | $64 |
| Abbott | 3 | $52 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $39 |
| Novartis | 2 | $30 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $26 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$2,215 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,469 family medicine providers in Louisiana.
Other family medicine in Alexandria
- Michael ScrepetisAlexandria$27K
- Gregory BevelsAlexandria$24K
- Kenneth BrownAlexandria$17K
- Gregory BrianAlexandria$15K
- Clinton GuilloryMonroe$18.5M
- Jason MorrisLake Charles$18M
- Michael SeepLake Charles$9.1M
- William NaboursLake Charles$3M
- Ramon VargasKenner$2.1M
- Stephen JonesNew Orleans$513K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.