Eric Simolke
Physician Assistant · Shreveport, LANPI 1316960966
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 28 payments — averaging $121.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Si-bone, Inc.$1K
- Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation$865
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$796
- Edwards Lifesciences$205
- Medtronic$137
- Abiomed$133
- plus $215 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,14063%
- Food & beverage$1,26337%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Si-bone, Inc. | 5 | $1,051 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 5 | $865 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $796 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $205 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $137 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $133 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $79 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $60 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $18 |
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
$3,403 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,246 physician assistant 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 11 | $6,596 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 38 | $342 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 45 | $278 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 30 | $191 |
| Methocarbamol | 22 | $165 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 32 | $164 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 13 | $119 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 11 | $101 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 17 | $90 |
| Gabapentin | 14 | $89 |
| Methylprednisolone | 12 | $80 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 12 | $60 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 16 | $53 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.