Has Christopher Hindelang received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,898 in general payments to Christopher Hindelang across 342 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Christopher Hindelang did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Christopher Hindelang come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Christopher Hindelang

Physician Assistant · Abbeville, LANPI 1841384070

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,898in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 342 payments — averaging $17.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$1K
Novartis$493
Amgen$368
Johnson & Johnson$359
Lilly USA, LLC$345
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$323
plus $3K from 36 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$5,75798%
Education$1412%

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(2 entities)	84	$1,234
Novartis	32	$493
Amgen	20	$368
Johnson & Johnson	15	$359
Lilly USA, LLC	21	$345
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	17	$323
Sanofi	19	$282
Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.	10	$237
UCB, Inc.	14	$231
LEO Pharma Inc.	11	$204
Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	11	$176
Incyte Corporation	9	$174
Pfizer	9	$147
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	4	$108
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	6	$97
EPI Health, LLC	6	$94
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.	4	$92
Astellas Pharma US Inc	4	$82
VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$79
Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC	4	$76
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	3	$73
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	5	$66
Dexcom, Inc.	3	$58
Journey Medical Corporation	3	$48
Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.	2	$46
Ardelyx, Inc.	2	$40
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	2	$38
Almirall LLC	2	$36
Boehringer Ingelheim	2	$34
Scpharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$32
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$26
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	1	$25
Radius Health, Inc.	1	$25
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.	1	$19
Dermira, Inc.	1	$18
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$17
Dermavant Sciences, Inc.	1	$17
Exact Sciences	1	$17
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC	1	$16
Abbott	1	$16
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$16
Merz North America, Inc.	1	$11

How this compares

$5,898 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,246 physician assistant providers in Louisiana.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Fluticasone Propionate	32	$451
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate	16	$333
Diclofenac Sodium	17	$220
Mupirocin	21	$212
Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst	12	$202
Methocarbamol	15	$202
Lisinopril	21	$178
Sertraline Hcl	12	$142
Amlodipine Besylate	16	$140
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	17	$135
Triamcinolone Acetonide	13	$127
Tramadol Hcl	30	$114
Doxycycline Hyclate	20	$90
Famotidine	11	$75
Azithromycin	24	$64

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other physician assistant in Abbeville

Shelly EsnardBaton Rouge$141K
Jefferson OberleNew Orleans$66K
Jennifer ScheuermannNew Orleans$56K
Claire DarreJefferson$50K
Elizabeth ClementNew Orleans$35K
Mary Negrotto GuntherSlidell$29K
Kristen HebertZachary$27K
David GsellNew Orleans$26K
Nakia BrooksNew Orleans$25K
Savannah SanchezBaton Rouge$19K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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