Jonathan Richards, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1457511362
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 75 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 27 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 13.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 75 payments — averaging $21.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$225
- Abiomed$216
- Johnson & Johnson$168
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$124
- Boehringer Ingelheim$116
- UCB, Inc.$96
- plus $681 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,627100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 12 | $225 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $216 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $168 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 1 | $124 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $116 |
| UCB, Inc. | 5 | $96 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 9 | $65 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 3 | $63 |
| Merck | 3 | $51 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 2 | $45 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $39 |
| Bayer | 2 | $38 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $31 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $29 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Coaptech, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Abbott | 1 | $24 |
| Inogen, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $16 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $15 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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.
How this compares
$1,627 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 72 critical care 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 19 | $270 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 19 | $158 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 11 | $52 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- James FordBaton Rouge$6K
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- Daniel ReesBaton Rouge$4K
- Owen StellBaton Rouge$3K
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.