Emily Phifer-Menefee
Physician Assistant · Shreveport, LANPI 1255680930
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 89 payments — averaging $44.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Insulet Corporation$469
- Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Inc$372
- Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$174
- Tolmar, Inc.$144
- Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.$98
- plus $783 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,24832%
- Food & beverage$2,65567%
- Education$541%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 22 | $1,916 |
| Insulet Corporation | 11 | $469 |
| Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Inc | 7 | $372 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $174 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 6 | $144 |
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 3 | $98 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $76 |
| Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $76 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $74 |
| Soleno Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $71 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $46 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $44 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $36 |
| BETA Bionics, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Sequel Med Tech, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $20 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
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.
- MINIMED 780G$1,426
- Omnipod$257
- SKYTROFA$250
- Triptodur$115
How this compares
$3,956 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,246 physician assistant providers in Louisiana.
Other physician assistant in Shreveport
- Emily BergeronShreveport$17K
- Seth MillerShreveport$16K
- Cassie MillerShreveport$16K
- Cedric WillisShreveport$12K
- Sarah HutchinsonShreveport$12K
- Megan JohnsonShreveport$12K
- Dustin HadleyShreveport$11K
- Shannon KoveleskieShreveport$9K
- Colleen ClineShreveport$8K
- Jennifer BrownShreveport$7K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.