Kelly Burkenstock, MD
Internal Medicine · New Orleans, LANPI 1730183112
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 168 payments — averaging $37.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lumenis BE Inc$2K
- AstraZeneca$2K
- Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC$507
- Lilly USA, LLC$364
- Merz North America, Inc.$299
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$184
- plus $900 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,242100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lumenis BE Inc | 1 | $2,368 |
| AstraZeneca | 62 | $1,621 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 31 | $507 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 19 | $364 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 5 | $299 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $184 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 9 | $138 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $125 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $118 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 6 | $107 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 4 | $69 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $52 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 2 | $37 |
| GSK | 2 | $35 |
| Amgen | 2 | $34 |
| Cipher Pharmaceuticals US LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $21 |
| Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$6,242 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 58 | $70,246 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 59 | $56,842 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 15 | $23,709 |
| Liothyronine Sodium | 212 | $12,591 |
| InvokanaCanagliflozin | 16 | $11,379 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 28 | $2,881 |
| UnithroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 50 | $2,025 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 175 | $2,010 |
| Omega-3 Acid Ethyl Esters | 18 | $1,484 |
| Pravastatin Sodium | 81 | $1,408 |
| Potassium Chloride | 26 | $1,047 |
| Losartan Potassium | 53 | $860 |
| Nebivolol Hcl | 18 | $855 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 44 | $709 |
| Metformin Hcl | 63 | $667 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity | $364 | $93,95673 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $1,621 | $56,84259 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonInvokana | $125 | $11,37916 claims |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCUnithroid, Levothyroxine Sodium | $507 | $4,036225 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $118 | $2,88128 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 85th percentile of 1,528 internal medicine providers in Louisiana.
Other internal medicine in New Orleans
- William SmithNew Orleans$50.5M
- Brian LewisNew Orleans$2M
- Steven DeitelzweigNew Orleans$939K
- Lydia BazzanoNew Orleans$892K
- Eboni Price-HaywoodNew Orleans$659K
- Susan Lewis AbdalianNew Orleans$301K
- Eduardo RodriguezNew Orleans$167K
- Shigeki SaitoNew Orleans$120K
- Jonathan GugelNew Orleans$95K
- Keith WinfreyNew Orleans$93K
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.