Gregory Ward, MD
Pain Medicine · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1821044025
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 16 payments — averaging $45.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$195
- KCI USA, Inc.$125
- Amgen$125
- Nevro Corp.$87
- Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc.$52
- Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$43
- plus $103 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$730100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 3 | $195 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Amgen | 1 | $125 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $87 |
| Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $38 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $11 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $3 |
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.
- VAC VERAFLO$125
- PREVENA$125
- DYSPORT$125
- AIMOVIG$125
How this compares
$730 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 97 pain medicine 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 | 14 | $7,341 |
| MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate | 11 | $4,305 |
| Tramadol Hcl ErTramadol Hcl | 12 | $993 |
| Gabapentin | 87 | $911 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 85 | $766 |
| Methocarbamol | 50 | $514 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 54 | $438 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 55 | $350 |
| Potassium Chloride | 22 | $326 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 28 | $280 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 24 | $273 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 21 | $268 |
| Benztropine Mesylate | 27 | $237 |
| Divalproex Sodium | 16 | $185 |
| Pregabalin | 25 | $185 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Baton Rouge
- Jason GremillionBaton Rouge$19K
- Barrett JohnstonBaton Rouge$14K
- Samir PatelBaton Rouge$11K
- Samita DasBaton Rouge$10K
- Andrew BarkerBaton Rouge$9K
- Jake TrahanBaton Rouge$9K
- William GraugnardBaton Rouge$7K
- Paul KrammBaton Rouge$5K
- Jyoti PhamBaton Rouge$4K
- John NolesBossier City$1.9M
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.