Has Erik Hanson, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,367 in general payments to Erik Hanson, MD across 95 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 Erik Hanson, MD 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 Erik Hanson, MD 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.

Erik Hanson, MD

Psychiatry · Metairie, LANPI 1043714884

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,367in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 95 payments — averaging $24.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alkermes, Inc.$681
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$424
Johnson & Johnson$338
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$280
AbbVie$137
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$89
plus $418 from 11 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,367100%

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
Alkermes, Inc.	27	$681
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	21	$424
Johnson & Johnson	19	$338
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$280
AbbVie	2	$137
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC	1	$89
Tris Pharma Inc	4	$77
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	4	$68
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$57
Lundbeck LLC	2	$40
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	1	$39
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	2	$37
Neos Therapeutics, LP	1	$24
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	1	$22
Corium, LLC	2	$20
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$17
Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$16

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

$2,367 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 474 psychiatry providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$9,727

Medicare patients

Services billed

108

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
Buspirone Hcl	24	$333
Mirtazapine	15	$137

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatry in Metairie

Charles ChesterMetairie$14K
Teri SchwarzMetairie$13K
Julie CeasarMetairie$12K
Kenneth SumnerMetairie$12K
Jonathon RynningMetairie$11K
Sidney SmithMetairie$10K
Jose RodriguezMetairie$9K
Kashinath YadalamLake Charles$3.8M
Guy BrannonShreveport$1.4M
Patrick HayesLake Charles$853K

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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.

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