RxDoctor Payments Data

Keith Winfrey

Internal Medicine · New Orleans, LANPI 1649212382

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (43.0%), food and beverage and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Exact Sciences accounts for 71.3% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,746, more than ten times the $86 reported in 2019. Among internal medicine clinicians in LA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$6,514in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 81 payments — averaging $80.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Exact Sciences$5K
  • Gilead$492
  • Lilly USA, LLC$364
  • Novo Nordisk$132
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$122
  • Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc.$118
  • plus $639 from 14 others
$86,889in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $28,963 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.

  • Orasure Technologies Inc.$87K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$2,80043%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$87513%
  • Travel & lodging$4327%
  • Food & beverage$2,40737%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$6,514 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,528 internal medicine providers in Louisiana.

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Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide38$56,654
OzempicSemaglutide44$55,027
MounjaroTirzepatide45$50,446
JardianceEmpagliflozin71$47,760
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate19$29,866
EliquisApixaban40$26,451
TradjentaLinagliptin20$17,256
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec18$8,601
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec14$6,997
MyrbetriqMirabegron11$6,520
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr13$6,368
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog47$5,053
Nifedipine ErNifedipine64$2,040
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen82$1,853
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate76$1,514

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$30$65,01791 claims
GileadVemlidy$492$56,65438 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$132$55,02744 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$364$50,44645 claims
MerckJanuvia$88$29,86619 claims
PfizerEliquis$70$26,45140 claims
GSKAnoro Ellipta$15$6,36813 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 90th percentile of 1,528 internal medicine providers in Louisiana.

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