Karla Querbes, MD
Internal Medicine · Shreveport, LANPI 1194756437
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 127 payments — averaging $16.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$420
- Lilly USA, LLC$235
- AstraZeneca$201
- Abbott$187
- Novo Nordisk$175
- Johnson & Johnson$115
- plus $741 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,075100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 29 | $420 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 15 | $235 |
| AstraZeneca | 12 | $201 |
| Abbott | 10 | $187 |
| Novo Nordisk | 11 | $175 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $115 |
| GSK | 6 | $104 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 3 | $79 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $51 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $44 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $37 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $33 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Merck | 2 | $30 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 2 | $29 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $25 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $22 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Verona Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $16 |
| Amgen | 1 | $15 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Itamar Medical Inc | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$2,075 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,528 internal 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 59 | $74,322 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 44 | $41,799 |
| EliquisApixaban | 33 | $30,562 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 32 | $28,365 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 23 | $28,286 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 24 | $25,483 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 15 | $22,082 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 11 | $17,607 |
| JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl | 14 | $13,460 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 12 | $13,048 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 23 | $11,949 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec | 11 | $8,805 |
| Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole | 21 | $4,918 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 14 | $4,770 |
| Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 11 | $3,640 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $175 | $74,32259 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity | $235 | $53,76947 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess | $51 | $41,79944 claims |
| MerckJanuvia, Janumet | $30 | $35,54229 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $420 | $30,56233 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $201 | $17,60711 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $44 | $13,04812 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $33 | $11,94923 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 1,528 internal medicine providers in Louisiana.
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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.