Julia Garcia-Diaz
Infectious Disease · New Orleans, LANPI 1700844594
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $6,550 of the $7,850 with a category attached, or 83.4%. 5 manufacturers reported payments, led by Viiv Healthcare Company at 58.0% of the total. 2022 is the largest year on record at $4,550, more than ten times the $80 reported in 2019.
Across 6 payments — averaging $1308.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Viiv Healthcare Company$5K
- Theratechnologies Inc.$2K
- Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$1K
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$80
- Pfizer$20
Across 724 payments — averaging $13,619 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Pfizer$5.5M
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$2M
- Hoffmann-la Roche Limited$798K
- Merck$773K
- Roche Products Limited$301K
- Genentech, Inc.$283K
- plus $177K from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,55083%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,20015%
- Education$801%
- Gifts$200%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 1 | $4,550 |
| Theratechnologies Inc. | 2 | $2,000 |
| Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $1,200 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $80 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $20 |
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.
- Tavalisse$1,200
How this compares
$7,850 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 105 infectious disease providers in Louisiana.
Other infectious disease in New Orleans
- Eric EhrensingNew Orleans$97K
- Meredith ClementNew Orleans$93K
- Rebecca LillisNew Orleans$60K
- Stephanie TaylorNew Orleans$25K
- Edwin SwiatloNew Orleans$22K
- Jonathan HandNew Orleans$10K
- Markalain DeryNew Orleans$9K
- Obinna NneduNew Orleans$3K
- Katherine BaumgartenNew Orleans$3K
- George PankeyNew Orleans$3K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.