Kelechi Akamiro, MD
Sports Medicine · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1396302246
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 19 payments — averaging $21.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$119
- Bioventus LLC$79
- Fidia Pharma USA Inc.$54
- Lilly USA, LLC$53
- Exact Sciences$37
- Dynavax Technologies Corporation$29
- plus $44 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$414100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 6 | $119 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $79 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $53 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $37 |
| Dynavax Technologies Corporation | 1 | $29 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
How this compares
$414 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 82 sports 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 | 13 | $17,005 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 12 | $121 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 17 | $101 |
| Meloxicam | 16 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Baton Rouge
- Jeremy BurnhamBaton Rouge$120K
- Christopher BankheadBaton Rouge$9K
- Donald CarsonBaton Rouge$8K
- Julie NeumannBaton Rouge$6K
- Mathew MazochBaton Rouge$5K
- Rani WhitfieldBaton Rouge$5K
- James RobinsonBaton Rouge$4K
- Jeffrey BurnhamBaton Rouge$2K
- Stephen EtheredgeBaton Rouge$2K
- Felix SavoieNew Orleans$1.4M
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.