Jennifer Walters
Physician Assistant · Louisville, KYNPI 1376528216
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 158 payments — averaging $23.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$713
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$479
- Boston Scientific$376
- IBSA Pharma Inc.$291
- Protega Pharmaceutials Inc$236
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$202
- plus $1K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,712100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 54 | $713 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 14 | $479 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $376 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 17 | $291 |
| Protega Pharmaceutials Inc | 4 | $236 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 3 | $202 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $164 |
| Abbott | 6 | $143 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $120 |
| Nevro Corp. | 5 | $113 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $86 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 3 | $71 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $69 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $49 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $49 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Valinor Pharma, LLC | 2 | $38 |
| Amgen | 2 | $37 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $31 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $27 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $14 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $8 |
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.
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$243
- Evoke$207
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$169
- mild Device Kit$131
- FARXIGA$114
How this compares
$3,712 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,448 physician assistant providers in Kentucky.
Other physician assistant in Louisville
- Melissa DavisLouisville$362K
- Kara MuddLouisville$98K
- Robert TatumLouisville$29K
- Grace IsaacsLouisville$28K
- Joshua CastlenLouisville$16K
- Erin WaggonerLouisville$14K
- Shelley SchulerLouisville$12K
- Jacquee McNearLouisville$10K
- Kylee DreisbachLouisville$9K
- Emily LutzLouisville$9K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.