Jay St John, MD
Geriatric Medicine · New Orleans, LANPI 1578820619
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $310 of the $350 with a category attached, or 88.6%. It is spread thinly across 14 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 24 payments — averaging $14.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$65
- Gilead$40
- AbbVie$39
- Novo Nordisk$34
- GSK$32
- Merck$26
- plus $114 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$31089%
- Education$4011%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 5 | $65 |
| Gilead | 2 | $40 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $39 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $34 |
| GSK | 2 | $32 |
| Merck | 2 | $26 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $21 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $14 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $14 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 2 | $12 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$350 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 40 geriatric 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 | 1,571 | $471,852 |
| IngrezzaValbenazine Tosylate | 107 | $392,839 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 417 | $121,862 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 110 | $113,306 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 104 | $106,696 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 174 | $53,868 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 73 | $50,352 |
| XifaxanRifaximin | 26 | $40,452 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 2,384 | $34,574 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 94 | $33,036 |
| GemtesaVibegron | 109 | $26,972 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 84 | $23,504 |
| AptiomEslicarbazepine Acetate | 18 | $22,959 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 97 | $22,913 |
| Memantine Hcl | 659 | $22,865 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| MerckJanuvia | $26 | $121,862417 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $34 | $113,306110 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $11 | $106,696104 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta | $14 | $77,373258 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta | $32 | $63,808105 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess, Lumigan | $39 | $26,29649 claims |
| AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Farxiga | $21 | $22,00050 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 40 geriatric medicine providers in Louisiana.
Other geriatric medicine in New Orleans
- Fadi Abu-FarsakhNew Orleans$534
- Lobna AliNew Orleans$133
- Julijana ConicNew Orleans$102
- Kristen ShealyNew Orleans$57
- Nancy TranNew Orleans$18
- Rodney PattabhiNew Orleans$0
- Latrice RobertsRayville$6K
- Samuel AbshireHaynesville$3K
- Amy DevineMetairie$2K
- William LacorteMetairie$1K
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.