James Taylor, MD
Emergency Medicine · Ruston, LANPI 1497742506
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 13 payments — averaging $20.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$81
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$73
- Abiomed$45
- Qapel Medical Inc$30
- Chiesi USA, Inc.$21
- Pfizer$17
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$266100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 3 | $81 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $73 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $45 |
| Qapel Medical Inc | 2 | $30 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $17 |
How this compares
$266 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 881 emergency 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sucralfate | 31 | $344 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 15 | $304 |
| Celecoxib | 23 | $194 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 57 | $189 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 30 | $166 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 14 | $147 |
| Methylprednisolone | 16 | $134 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 25 | $131 |
| CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil | 14 | $131 |
| Naproxen | 41 | $126 |
| Cephalexin | 15 | $86 |
| Methocarbamol | 27 | $84 |
| Ibuprofen | 12 | $38 |
| Prednisone | 22 | $34 |
| Meloxicam | 19 | $15 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other emergency medicine in Ruston
- Michael CotugnoNew Iberia$16.8M
- Lisa MillsNew Orleans$593K
- William SmithOpelousas$492K
- Trevor MillsNew Orleans$470K
- Fred WillisShreveport$427K
- James NicholsShreveport$285K
- Bryant BoydShreveport$83K
- Kevin WashingtonNew Orleans$69K
- Daniel JohnsonNew Orleans$66K
- Thomas ArnoldShreveport$48K
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.