Has Gretchen Ulfers, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $308 in general payments to Gretchen Ulfers, MD across 16 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 Gretchen Ulfers, 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 Gretchen Ulfers, 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.

Gretchen Ulfers, MD

Pulmonary Disease · New Orleans, LANPI 1861683708

Payments from drug & device makers

$308in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $19.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$65
UCB, Inc.$54
Amgen$42
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$39
Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$37
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$29
plus $42 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$308100%

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
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	4	$65
UCB, Inc.	3	$54
Amgen	2	$42
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$39
Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.	2	$37
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$29
Abbott	1	$28
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.	1	$13

How this compares

$308 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 189 pulmonary disease providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$19,056

Medicare patients

113

Services billed

183

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	109	$69,121
JardianceEmpagliflozin	16	$18,796
RexultiBrexpiprazole	16	$5,760
Atorvastatin Calcium	140	$1,795
Pantoprazole Sodium	115	$1,388
Autoshield Duo Pen NeedlePen Needle,dual Safety,diabetc	11	$1,122
Potassium Chloride	69	$970
Amlodipine Besylate	81	$801
Metoprolol Succinate	64	$788
Furosemide	115	$723
Donepezil Hcl	55	$715
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	51	$705
Zonisamide	11	$684
Mirtazapine	44	$680
Levothyroxine Sodium	55	$625

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Nereida ParadaNew Orleans$289K
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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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